Ezra Taft Benson

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.