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Topic: Responsibility, Matches 82 quotes.
Investigation By Taxpayers
I am very sympathetic with the movement that I have heard is in progress wherein the taxpayers constitute themselves committees to investigate our public expenditures. No official of the government who has the right conception of his trust ought, in any sense, to resent an investigation of the administration of his office. I like the idea. I wish citizens everywhere would organize themselves and go to public officials and question them and ascertain whether or not it is not possible to make reductions in the excessive costs for which we are paying bills, for we pay them all.
Source: Elder Stephen L. Richards General Conference, October 1932
Topics: Responsibility; Taxes
My brethren and sisters, I have studied the history of the past. I know the story of the rise and fall of Rome, of Babylon, of Egypt, and of other great nations, and the one outstanding thing that brought that about was the corruption of the officials who were placed in charge of affairs of state. I do not wish to continue to quote scripture in order to demonstrate that we are living in a time when the Lord has said that these very things shall exist. But he has warned us against them. He has declared the destiny of this nation and of all other nations. I wish simply to say that if they are to persist, if they continue, it will be when the people return to the Lord God of heaven and in justice and righteousness serve him, both in civil and ecclesiastical affairs. And if this shall fail these very elements that have resulted in the destruction of the civilizations of the past, if they shall be permitted by us to persist, will eventually bring to us perplexity, confusion and final chaos.
Source: President Anthony W. Ivins General Conference, October 1930
Topics: Government, Downfall; Responsibility
Are we losing respect for the Constitution, that document which Gladstone has called the greatest State document of all the Christian ages? Must voices be raised in the tops of these everlasting hills, calling to the people of the United States to come to the defense of the Constitution? Our forefathers and our own loved ones have spent their lives for its principles. Are we unwilling to cast our votes for those who will honor it?
Source: Elder Richard R. Lyman General Conference, October 1927
Topics: Responsibility; US Constitution, Defend
A Warning Voice Against Evil
It is pleasing to know that the Latter-day Saints are loyal, as a people, to the Government, to the Constitution, and that they observe the law. Moreover, it is well to have our attention called to the duties and responsibilities that are ours as members of the Church, and to have the warning voice raised, from time to time, against the evils that prevail in the world that we may be prepared to resist them.
Source: Elder Joseph Fielding Smith General Conference, October 1927
Topics: Law, Respect For; Responsibility
Let me add one final stop to your American journey. The placeArlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia the tomb of Americas unknown soldier. Today the remains of three servicemen from three wars lie there. The inscription reminds us, Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God. There are in addition 4,724 other unknown servicemen buried in Arlington, and all across the nation and the world. I have seen the crosses, row upon row, marking the places where lie Americas honored dead, literally in the thousands. What did it cost them that this nation might remain the land of liberty? How shall we honor them, you and I?
In two ways it seems to me: First, by striving to make our citizenry the righteous people the Lord requires of us. And second, by telling the story of what the Lord has done for you and me and this great church, and why.
Source: Elder Paul H. Dunn General Conference, October 1975
Topics: Responsibility
In a despotism, an absolute monarchy, where the king rules, and the people only submit, great is the obligation of the king, but the individual citizens obligation is correspondingly less. In our own government, where the people rule, each individual citizen is a ruler in the nation and great is his responsibility; great are the obligations that rest upon him by reason of that citizenship, for he himself is a ruler, a sovereign, and helps to form and fashion the government of which he is one of its rulers. If we have good government it is because the individual citizens are good. If we have a bad government it is because the individual citizens are bad. That applies not only to the nation at large, but to the state, to the county and to the city.
Source: Elder Rulon S. Wells General Conference, October 1921
Topics: Government, Forms of; Responsibility
We should continue to speak out for freedom and against socialism and communism as President McKay has consistently admonished us. We should continue to come to the aid of patriots, programs and organizations which are trying to save our Constitution through every legal and moral means possible.
Source: Elder Ezra Taft Benson General Conference, October 1963
Topics: Citizenship; Responsibility
[W]e should help those who have been deceived or who are misinformed to find the truth. Unless each person who knows the truth will stand up and speak up it is difficult for the deceived or confused citizen to find his way back.
Source: Elder Ezra Taft Benson General Conference, October 1961
Topics: Responsibility
[W]e should not make the mistake of calling people communist just because they happen to be helping the communist cause. Thousands of patriotic Americans, including a few Latter-day Saints, have helped the communists without realizing it. Others have knowingly helped without joining the party. The remedy is to avoid name-calling, but point out clearly and persuasively how they are helping the communists.
Source: Elder Ezra Taft Benson General Conference, October 1961
Topics: Education; Responsibility
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