My Country Tis of Thee

I generally don't like to get into politics with people because I generally am not super opinionated about it, but I am very concerned about the future of our country and who the people leading it really are and what they're doing. I love this country and the freedoms that come with living here. I love the Constitution and believe people should read it regularly to remind them what we are not only fighting for, but what we are so blessed to have. I worry about so many of the changes people are trying to make and fear they will only take us down the wrong path.

However, I also believe there are many people out there who feel and think the same way I do. People who are not afraid to stand up for basic truths and principles that this country was founded on. My Mom brought this quote to my attention. I think it is profound in many ways, but especially because it was said right in the midst of the Great Depression. Anyway, here it is...I hope it inspires you to make your voice heard so that our country can rise past the current trials.

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." ~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

And not to drag this on forever, but here is another quote my sister-in-law found by Heber J. Grant:
"We again warn our people in America of the constantly increasing threat against our inspired Constitution and our free institutions set up under it. The same political tenets and philosophies that have brought war and terror in other parts of the world are at work amongst us in America. The proponents thereof are seeking to undermine our own form of government and to set up instead one of the forms of dictatorships now flourishing in other lands. . . .

. . . Communism and all other similar isms bear no relationship whatever to the United Order. They are merely the clumsy counterfeits which Satan always devises of the gospel plan. . . . Latter-day Saints cannot be true to their faith and lend aid, encouragement, or sympathy to any of these false philosophies. They will prove snares to their feet. I counsel you, I urge you, I plead with you, never, so far as you have voice or influence, permit any departure from the principles of government on which this nation was founded, or any disregard of the freedoms which, by the inspiration of God our Father, were written into the Constitution of the United States."