The Lord says: “When the wicked rule, the people mourn.” Wise men, good men, patriotic men are to be found in all communities, in all political parties, among all creeds. None but such men should be chosen.

Source: “Can This Be True?”, signed by The First Presidency
January 1928

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Is there anything which will contribute more to the peace and happiness of mankind than chaste living? The perpetuity of our government depends upon the stability of our homes, and the stability of our homes depends upon the purity of the parentage in those homes, the fathers as well as the mothers.

Youth of the land, when we say, keep the faith, we are but asking you to be patriots as well as to be true men, to be strong in your youth, that you may be worthy of fatherhood; young women, that you may possess the beauty of honorable and worthy motherhood. Thus you will contribute to the strength of your community, to the strength and perpetuity of the nation you love.

Source: Elder David O. McKay
General Conference, October 1928

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Other nations might boast of their kings, but the King of America, proclaimed by the patriotic fathers who founded it and established it, is the great God of heaven. This must continue to be the sentiment of the people of America if these glorious institutions shall be preserved, and in our hands is the sacred keeping of these great and glorious principles.

Source: Elder Melvin J. Ballard
General Conference, October 1928

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God bless you, my brethren and sisters, keep us all from the sins of the world, keep us clean and unspotted. Make us more devoted if possible to his word and more loyal and patriotic to the government of which we form a part. For without this government the Church of Christ could not exist, unless God should manifest his power in an unusual manner in our behalf. He has raised up this government and the men who direct its affairs for our protection and benefit, for the protection and benefit of the people of the world in righteousness.

Source: President Anthony W. Ivins
General Conference, October 1926

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At all times these champions of liberty have been opposed by that arch enemy of God, even Satan, that rebelled against God in the beginning, and those who followed after him, and, as always, through human instrumentality, they killed the prophets, they persecuted the saints, they crucified the Savior of the world and put to death his apostles, those mighty men of God who preached his gospel in all the then known world, and transmitted their testimony in holy writ for the generations which were to come. Surely power was given unto Satan to make war with the Saints and overcome them as John the Revelator tells us.

The darkness that followed these tragic events has been rightly called the dark ages, and was only partly dispelled by the great reformers who were, however, not reformers but Protestants who made effective protest against the darkness and tyranny that held the world in spiritual bondage and most abominable idolatry.

All these, together with the discovery of America and the founding of our glorious republic under the guiding hand of Providence, were the necessary preliminary preparations for the restoration of his glorious gospel and the setting up of his Church and kingdom upon the earth, never to be thrown down nor given to another people; where the perfect law of liberty shall be supreme and mankind shall be liberated from the bondage of sin, and Satan shall be bound for a thousand years during the great millennial reign of peace when Christ shall be our king and subdue all enemies under his feet.

Therefore God raised up another champion of human liberty even Joseph Smith the great prophet of the latter days, to usher in this glorious dispensation, the climax of which, not yet attained, shall be the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Source: Elder Rulon S. Wells
General Conference, October 1926

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I pray for the people of the world; not only for the Latter-day Saints, but I pray God’s blessings upon every loyal, patriotic man and woman that is endeavoring to do right, and to uphold the laws of the countries where they reside. I pray God’s blessings upon the President of these United States of America. I thank God for the loyalty and the patriotism of the Latter-day Saints. I thank God that we believe that the constitution of our country was given to us under the inspiration of the Living God, and that the Lord supported George Washington and the patriot fathers of this country.

Source: President Heber J. Grant
General Conference, October 1924

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I do not believe that in this great country of ours which has been so lauded during this conference, there will ever be a satisfactory upholding of the Constitution, a decent conformity to laws and statutes and ordinances unless there e at the basis of all patriotism and loyalty to country, a deep-seated conscious reverence for the God of the land. It may seem to some of my fellow citizens an almost fanatic view to take that religion is so inseparably associated with the inception of this great government and its existence as to form an integral part of the loyalty and devotion of true citizens of the State; but I assert it nevertheless. I believe America to be a Christian country. I believe the principles which are set forth in her fundamental laws to be derived from, consciously, the Savior of the world. His precepts, his principles of truth and living, have been set forth by the founders and the fathers in our laws and statutes; and America, in order to continuously and satisfactorily fill her great mission as a mighty nation, must conform to those fundamental laws and principles of truth, in my humble judgment. Reverence for the Lord does not bring forth the class of men and women who today assail the fundamental laws of this land. The who are designated as the Reds, the Anarchists, those who are inimical to our established institutions, I venture, could they all be found out and analyzed, would not be men who love God and who revere his name and who acknowledge his power and his supremacy in the earth. The loyal citizens in this Country, in my humble opinion, are to be found among the God-fearing, God-loving people who still trust him and honor him, who recognize his great providence in the inception and growth of this mighty country; and when reverence for God fades and gives way, loyalty, patriotism, devotion to country, will likewise vanish.

Source: Elder Stephen L. Richards
General Conference, October 1924

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All Institutions And Interests Dependent On The Stability Of Government

The welfare of the Church, and every other interest and institution of our country is dependent upon the stability of our civil government, by which our every interest is controled. There is nothing which we call our own, not even our lives, which is not subject to its demands. However much we may resist or say we will not, it compels submission.

Our government can be no better than its citizenship, since the men who frame and execute the laws are chosen from among the body of the people, and consequently reflect the character of the majority of the electorate.

Source: President Anthony W. Ivins
General Conference, October 1924

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Some eighty years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States in /Savings and Loan Association/ vs. /Topeka /(22 Law. Ed. 461) declared “to lay, with one hand, the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals . . . is nonetheless a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.” Also in those days before it became legal, and even respectable, to forcibly redistribute the earnings of some citizens in order to secure the vote and favor of others, the forgotten clause of the Fifth Amendment was as carefully adhered to as is another clause today. I refer to the clause which says, “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”

Source: W. C. Mullendore
If We Behave Wisely, The Freeman, January 1957, p.8

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