Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar

Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar

No one can make you serve customers well…that’s because great service is a choice. Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this point. He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing...
Religious Values and Public Policy

Religious Values and Public Policy

  From an address given 29 February 1992 to the Brigham Young University Management Society, Washington, D.C. Dallin H. Oaks, “Religious Values and Public Policy,” Ensign, Oct. 1992, 60 Last April my Church duties took me to Albania. Elder Hans B. Ringger and I...
The Fall of a Republic

The Fall of a Republic

When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tytler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time:     “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can...
The Proper Role of Government

The Proper Role of Government

by Ezra Taft Benson Men in the public spotlight constantly are asked to express an opinion on a myriad of government proposals and projects. “What do you think of TVA?” “What is your opinion of Medicare?” How do you feel about Urban Renewal?” The list is endless. All...
28 Principles of Freedom

28 Principles of Freedom

 Those who are familiar with the 28 Principles of Liberty outlined in The 5000 Year Leap, are acquainted with the claim that these are the principles upon which the Founders based our new government, thereby assuring us of lasting peace , prosperity, and freedom....
The Measurement of Law

The Measurement of Law

  In order to understand where we are at this point in time, as far as being governed, we must understand a couple of things. There are basically two systems of law, both are opposite each other.  On the one side is a government that is ruled by either on person,...