As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
David O. McKayWhen a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
David O. McKay[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
David O. McKayThe character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.
David O. McKay