Great and mighty are these men of America (The Founding Fathers). How our hearts swell with patriotic pride when we contemplate their achievements. Let us then honor them, and let me here say that we honor them most when we say, as all Latter-day Saints do say, that God raised them up and inspired them with his holy Spirit for the furtherance of his great cause, the cause of human liberty. Let us not think even for a moment that liberty is the gift of any government or any nation. Oh, no! Life and liberty are our inalienable rights and were vouchsafed unto us in that primeval council when our great champion, even Jesus Christ, said : “Here am I, send me” for he came and organized this earth as a dwelling place for the children of God, for you and me:
To live and to be free,
To worship God alone
As conscience guideth me,
As my own heart is prone;
For these are rights God given,
He gave them all to me,
They emanate from heaven,
E’en life and liberty.

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