"That the sole object and only legitimate end……" — Ezra Taft Benson
"That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression."
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406 Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson has 406 quotes on this site.
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important…
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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign…
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Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or…
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon…
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to…
— Jerry Bridges
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy…
— James Anthony Froude
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
— Dan Barker
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to…
— John Cage
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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