Honor and a privilege to be with you today. Thanks a lot, thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Son it is an honor to be here. The constitution does not mention Political Parties, and George Washington warned us against them in his farewell address. He said that Political Parties would form factions of men, and he said that the men in those factions would end up caring more about their faction than about their country. Georgebviously washington was correct. Situation where the political system goes on and on and on about how divided we are, and yet the political system itself is the primary divider. I think that the dividing lines are not even true. They are not even appropriate to the times in which we live, because the Main Division today is not between left and right. The Main Division today is between democracy and antidemocracy. The Main Division today is between those who believe that economic principles unfettered by any ethical or moral consideration should organize our s
The political system goes on and on and on about how divided we are, and yet the political system itself is the primary divider. I think that the dividing lines are not even true. They are not even appropriate to the times in which we live, because the Main Division today is not between left and right. The Main Division today is between democracy and antidemocracy. The Main Division today is between those who believe that economic principles unfettered by any ethical or moral consideration should organize our society versus those that believe humanitarian principles should organize our society. The division today is not between conservative and liberal. Eisenhower, president eisenhower said that the American Mind at its best is both liberal and conservative, and i believe that. I believe there are highminded conservative values and highminded liberal values. But while conservatives and liberals are going at it each other, a real opponent of both of them is having a great time laughing
Thank you. Son it is an honor to be here. The constitution does not mention Political Parties, and George Washington warned us against them in his farewell address. He said that Political Parties would form factions of men, and he said that the men in those factions would end up caring more about their faction than about their country. Georgebviously washington was correct. Situation where the political system goes on and on and on about how divided we are, and yet the political system itself is the primary divider. I think that the dividing lines are not even true. They are not even appropriate to the times in which we live, because the Main Division today is not between left and right. The Main Division today is between democracy and antidemocracy. The Main Division today is between those who believe that economic principles unfettered by any ethical or moral consideration should organize our society versus those that believe humanitarian principles should organize our society. The d
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Dr. Woods its my pleasure to will come dr. Woods back to the library. And to give a presentation on mormon trends, migration in missouri, between 1838 and 1868. These decades are an overlooked period of lds in missouri history, when latter day saints traversed hundreds of miles across the state. Despite a government extermination threat issued by the governor. Woods has been a professor of Church History and doctor at Brigham Young University Since 1998. He specializes in latter day saints. Immigration studies and is the editor of saints by the sea. Saints by the sea website, which documents lds maritime immigration in america in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hes editor and compiler of the mormon immigration index, which was released in 2000, and is widely used by researchers. Woods has authored and coauthored more than a dozen books and scores of articles on lds history and collaborated on several documentary films. The most recent being the saints of tonga, a century of island f