A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others and is of the utmost consequence.

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force flying C-130's all around the globe that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have but rather it is a sacred duty and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

If we eat any food or drink any beverage we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.