-- source unknown

Democracy is when two wolves and a lamb vote on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

-- artsrflow@yahoo.com

-- Phyllis Schlafly, June 21, 2000

8 My disciples, in days of old, sought occasion against one another and forgave not one another in their hearts; and for this evil they were afflicted and sorely chastened.

9 Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the greater sin.

-- Doctrine & Covenants 64

--Thomas Jefferson

"BYU President Merrill J. Bateman's Web site . . . is evolving into an opportunity for him to interact with students, faculty, and alumni. ...In March the president used the site to encourage students to participate in Census 2000."

-- Brigham Young Magazine, "President Bateman Online," Summer 2000, p. 10.

See Editorial:
"Census becoming a tool for socialist state building"

Brigham Young Magazine, Fall '99

The late David M. Kennedy was a member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) and served as official representative to the LDS First Presidency.

"The People's Republic of China (PRC) has stolen classified design information on the United States' most advanced thermonuclear weapons. These thefts of nuclear secrets from our national weapons laboratories . . . give the PRC design information on thermonuclear weapons on a par with our own."

-- First paragraph of the bipartisan
Cox Committee Report, Jan. 3, 1999

"We need to rediscover a reverence for the natural world, irrespective of its usefulness to ourselves, to become more aware of the relationship between God, man and creation."

-- Prince Charles
Guardian Unlimited; May 17, 2000

"What if Monica Lewinsky and O.J. Simpson get married and legally adopt Elian? Something like that would keep the press busy until . . . well, forever. NEWS HEADLINE: 'Gonzalez- Lewinsky- Simpson Gets New Pokemon Underpants.' "

-- Robert Kirby
(SL Tribune, May 6, 2000)

"Without acknowledgment of Deity, without recognition of the Almighty as the ruling power of the universe, the all-important element of personal and national accountability shrinks and dies.  Are we so arrogant as to believe that we can get along without Him?  We see the manifestation of that arrogance in the great host of social problems with which we deal these days.  Teen pregnancy, abandoned families, failure to recognize the property and rights of others, gangs of young people cruising the streets of our cities, and many other problems like these have resulted, in substantial part at least, from failure to recognize there is a God to whom someday each of us must give an accounting. . . . There can be no doubt of the sickness in our society today.  We cannot build prisons fast enough to accommodate the need.  Humanism has replace worship in the lives of so very many.  We are forsaking the Almighty, and I fear He is forsaking us"

-- Gordon B. Hinckley
(29 June 1997, The Spirit of America, p. 156)

"Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as ought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people."

-- Esther 9:1,2 (435th chapter of the Bible)

* * * * *

435 is the area code of Utah outside of the mainstream 801 phone prefix.  Lest I be misunderstood, I should point out that what I see in the correlation  is not a prophecy of vengeful blood letting at some future time, for the weapons of the people of God will be primarily of the Spirit.  Indeed, the power of the cross is that Jesus could have commanded fire to come and destroy his enemies, but he asked for forgiveness for them instead.

Live your life in such a way that when you wake up in the morning, the Devil says, 'Oh no! He's awake!'