David O. McKay Quotes - Page 6

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• One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.

  David O. McKay

  Struggle, Responsibility, Numbers

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• No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

  David O. McKay

  Family, Success, Failure

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• Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States, or which are detrimental to the progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be condemned, whether advocated by Republicans or Democrats.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Teaching, Progress

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• Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Deeds, Responsible

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• A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

  David O. McKay

  Anger, Passion, Men

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• That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Home, Strive

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• Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Brotherhood, Desire

  LDS General Conference, October 1964.

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• An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

  David O. McKay

  Mean, Mind, Progress

  Title of Valedictorian address, 1897.

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• This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

  David O. McKay

  Age, Limitless, Possibility

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• I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

  David O. McKay

  Father, Believe, Inspired

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• The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  David O. McKay

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Best Effort

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• I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of no other place than home where more happiness can be found in this life. It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home.

  David O. McKay

  Home, Heart, Heaven

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• [Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

  David O. McKay

  Choices, Peaceful, Liberty

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• When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

  David O. McKay

  Husband, Wife, Healthy

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• The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Blessing, Helping

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• [One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

  David O. McKay

  Father, Principles, Faith In God

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• Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

  David O. McKay

  Patriotic, Soul, Students

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

  David O. McKay

  Inspiration, Individual Effort, Perfection

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• If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Motivation, Powerful

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• Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at the structure of the American home. Intelligence and mutual consideration should be ever-present factors in determining the coming of children to the home.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Home, Responsibility

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• True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

  David O. McKay

  Exercise, Long, Liberty

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• All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

  David O. McKay

  Men, World, Moved

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• Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

  David O. McKay

  Encouragement, Inspiration, Blessing

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