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We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

Ezra Taft Benson
Fighting, Winning, Mind
Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.

Ezra Taft Benson
Life, Blessing, Opportunity
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Ezra Taft Benson
Communication, Kids, Humility

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Ezra Taft Benson
Faith, Men, People
"Born of God". Ezra Taft Benson's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1985.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Ezra Taft Benson
Decision, Consequence

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

Ezra Taft Benson
Love, Life, God

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

Ezra Taft Benson
Life, Gratitude, Hands

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Ezra Taft Benson
People, Mind, Garbage
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Ezra Taft Benson
Life, Hard Times, Soul
"The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

Ezra Taft Benson
Home, Practice, Abortion

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

Ezra Taft Benson
Repent
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.

Ezra Taft Benson
Spiritual, Men, Rights

[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom...men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.

Ezra Taft Benson
Men, Principles, Citizens

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

Ezra Taft Benson
Courage, Strong, Father

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Ezra Taft Benson
Men, Mark, Educated
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

We will not know Him, until we become like him.

Ezra Taft Benson
Knows
Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

Ezra Taft Benson
Blessing, Earth, Sake

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

Ezra Taft Benson
Temptation, Deception, Path

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Ezra Taft Benson
Land, Constitution Of The United States, Sacred
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Ezra Taft Benson
Government, Liberty, Citizens
Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Ezra Taft Benson
Children, Achievement, Praise
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

Ezra Taft Benson
Love, Happiness, Light
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Ezra Taft Benson
Character, Destiny, Eternity
Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Ezra Taft Benson
Priceless, Guarded

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.

Ezra Taft Benson
Father, Heaven, Faces

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