“If we do not accept the existence of a Supreme Being; that God is the source of moral law, what more do we have to offer than Marx? On what basis can we morally resist tyranny?

 

I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.

 

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

 

Freedom is an eternal, God-given principle. There is no genuine happiness without freedom, nor is there any security or peace without freedom. After traveling in practically all of the free countries of the world and several times behind the Iron Curtain, I say that Marxism is the greatest evil in this world and the greatest threat to all we hold dear.

 

Of all the sad things in the world, the saddest is to see a people who have once known liberty and freedom and then lost it.”

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Ezra Taft Benson

A Moral Challenge to the West A World Wide Battle,

Speech delivered to the International Freedoms Conference, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, October 26, 1979