- Alma 29: 8…Each nation is taught the word in wisdom all that THE LORD seeth fit for that nation
- Ether 8: 20-22…Whatever Nation that upholds secret combinations – destroyed
- 1 Nephi 22: 10-11…Nation will receive gospel when Lord decides
- “The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God governs in the affairs of men.” (Benjamin Franklin, Miracle at Philadelphia, 126)
- The eighteenth chapter of Genesis tells the story of God appearing to Abraham and sharing His intentions to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Hearing this intent, Abrahams asks God a rather pointed question. “Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” (v. 23) Then he starts to bargain with the Lord. “Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt though also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therin?” (v24) And God answers, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes” (v. 26) Think about that. “I will spare all the place.” The entire city. And why? For their sakes. For the sake of the good. Then Abraham, apparently knowing that the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were really pretty bad, rethinks his proposition. Realizing there might not actually be fifty righteous within the cities, he makes a counteroffer, asking if God wouldn’t spare the city for forty-five righteous (v. 28) And so they go, Abraham bargaining with God, essentially pleading on behalf of the righteous until they get down to ten. And God says, “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake” (v. 32).” Seven Miracles that Saved America, Page 293
- “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes, a principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”– Thomas Jefferson
- “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”– Thomas Jefferson
- “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” — Winston Churchill
- “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 is the beginning of the end of any nation!” Anonymous