If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

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

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

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.