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J. Reuben Clark

Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. (September 1, 1871 – October 6, 1961) was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Born in Grantsville, Utah Territory, Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Undersecretary of State for U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In 1930, Clark was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico.

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There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

Genius, Hard Work, Hold, Learning, Life, Nothing

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today. . . tomorrow.

Debt, Let, Plague, Today, Tomorrow

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Integrity, Patriotic, Blood, Lost, Human

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

Harm, Harmed, Investigation, Ought, Truth

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

Character, Reduced, Rocks, Struggle, Terms, Versus

If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.

Gospel, Ifs, Use

Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation. . . it is never laid off work. . . it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused. . . it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it. . . and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

Births, Crush, Holiday, Sleep, Soulless, Work

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

Angel, Divinity, Holiest, Mom, Motherhood

. . . when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

Enough, Good, Hard Times, Nothing, Religious, Self Reliance

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

Growth, Inescapable, Law, Preparation, Spiritual, Work

We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

Blessing, Dub, Independence, Live, Together

One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I urged you and pleaded with you that, so far as the Church and its membership were concerned, we do not soil our hands with the bounteous outpouring of funds which the government was giving unto us. I renew that plea now. My brethren and sisters, for the sake of the government which we love, for the sake of the government which we believe was divinely inspired, be honest with it. Be honest, just ordinarily gold honest. That is all I ask.

Ask, Believe, Concerned, Government, Hands, Outpouring

The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood…We should be careful of them.

Clothed, Clothing, Habiliments, Membership, Sheep, Should

We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy" as we ought to be. But this is not a Church convention. This is a general conference where we meet for general counsel and advice. It is a place to which we come for the results of the reflective operations of our minds.

Advice, Met, Mind, Ought, People, Quite

Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

Crush, Crushes, Integrity, Interest, Orders, Patriotic

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

Blood, Liberty, Humans, Price, Human

I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.

Believe, Children, Destiny, Eons, Righteous, Righteously

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

Work, Men, People, Suffer, Nation, Curse

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

Believe, Issues, Soil, Causes, Manhood

That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account. . . given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually in heaven before he was given a natural body.

Spiritual, Writing, Men, Heaven, Evidenced

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