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Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.


Bob Taft

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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abid...
EZRA TAFT BENSON A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abidin...
EZRA TAFT BENSON We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming th...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity m...
EZRA TAFT BENSON You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...
EZRA TAFT BENSON True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the estab...
EZRA TAFT BENSON No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth ...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prom...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business g...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific gr...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT [George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles dow...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I thin...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blo...
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