Doctrine & Covenants

This week, on the 130th anniversary of the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution), President Roosevelt said, in good words & true:

"...The rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which seemed to Jefferson and which seem to us inalienable, were, to Hitler and his fellows, empty words which they proposed to cancel for ever. The propositions they advanced to take the place of Jefferson's inalienable rights were these:

"That the individual human being has no rights whatever in himself and by virtue of his humanity;

"That the individual human being has no right to a soul of his own, or a mind of his own, or a tongue of his own, or a trade of his own; or even to live where he pleases or to marry the woman he loves;

"That his only duty is the duty of obedience, not to his God, and not to his conscience, but to Adolf Hitler; and that his only value is his value, not as a man, but as a unit of the Nazi State....

"What we face is nothing more nor less than an attempt to overthrow and to cancel out the great upsurge of human liberty of which the American Bill of Rights is the fundamental document....

"We will not, under any threat, or in the face of any danger, surrender the guarantees of liberty our forefathers framed for us in our Bill of Rights....

"We covenant with each other before all the world, that having taken up arms in the defense of liberty, we will not lay them down before liberty is once again secure in the world we live in. For that security we pray; for that security we act --now and evermore."

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