Quotes from David O. McKay

In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

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.