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One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

David O. McKay

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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
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That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
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I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
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The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
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Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.
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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
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The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help, should first pour out his soul in gratitude for health, for friends, for loved ones, for the gospel, for the manifestations of God's existence. He should first count his many blessings and name them one by one.
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Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
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The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?
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