the origin and rise of government

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. freedom and security.


Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776.

security born of unquenchable faith

Security is not born of inexhaustible wealth, but of unquenchable faith. And generally that kind of faith is born and nurtured in the home and in childhood.




Spencer W. Kimball, “Family Prayer,” Prayer. Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, UT. 1978. P.86

The Lord has made it very clear in the revelations that even though times become perilous, even though we be surrounded by temptation and sin, even though there be a feeling of insecurity even though men's hearts may fail them and anxiety fill their souls if we only trust in God and keep his commandments we need have no fear.


Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1950, Afternoon Meeting 146.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968

Why must men rely on physical fortification and armaments when the God of heaven yearns to bless them? One stroke of his omnipotent hand could make powerless all nations who oppose, and save a world even when in its death throes. Yet men shun God and put their trust in weapons of war, or in the ‘arm of flesh.’


President Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969, p. 318.

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; … In him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; [who] savest me from violence. I will call on the Lord, … so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

2 Sam. 22:2–4