Relevant Quotes

This week I thought I would post some quotes that I believe give some great advice and point to things happening now that truly threaten our freedoms and way of life.

Senator Wallace F. Bennett, BYU Speeches, February 15, 1961, p. 13:

We have much in our national system that militates against the rise of a dictator. The Bill of Rights with its philosophy of individual rights against oppression is still a curb on a power-hungry President. But if I were to guess as to how the Constitution may "hang by a thread" it would be because of the immense powers given to the President and his opportunity for their abuse.

Let us delve once again into the great principles of the Constitution and resolve that we will do all in our power to preserve these principles for our posterity. This is our duty as citizens of the United States, and pre-eminently our duty as Latter-day Saints, because without the Constitution this glorious restoration would not have taken place in this land and might not have taken place at this point in history.

Judge Joseph E. Nelson, BYU Speeches, April 24, 1963, p. 3:

Our government is an organization which was to, and since has, enacted, judged and enforced law through and by legislative, judicial and executive departments. It is encumbent on the American people to steadfastly maintain the historic balance of power by the three branches of government if our political system is to be preserved. If this is not done then the thread by which it has been predicted the Constitution will hang will be clipped and our form of government will disappear. We, the American people, must not become so internationally minded as to sell our birthright for a spurious promise of world peace. The most nationally-minded people are our enemies. We must remain faithful to our pledge, regardless of charges of chauvinism, to preserve America "with our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."

Too much power is being rested into the Executive branch with the appointment of all these "czars." Does the public not find it scary that the President is stepping out of the bounds placed in the Constitution to fill these positions? What is the point of having Cabinet secretaries if he is going to give their authority to someone else he has appointed outside of the confirmation process?