Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.