Freedom

Ultimately, freedom involves choice between eternal alternatives, but not the altering of the alternatives. We can choose wickedness or happiness, but not wickedness with happiness. ("Insights from My Life," p. 199.)

Sensuous souls often love their neighbors as themselves-i.e., not at all! Thus, Sodom was a free-wheeling, but very unfree society. (The Smallest Part, p. 11.)


(Cory H. Maxwell, ed., The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997], 132.)

Freedom, Teachings of Joseph Smith

Freedom

All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none. (Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 Vols. 5:156)

Freedom is a sweet blessing. Men have a right to take and read what papers they please; "but do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" It certainly is no more than just to suppose that charity begins at home; and if so, what must such as profess to be Saints think, when they patronize the splendor of Babylon and leave the virtue of Zion to linger for want of bread? (Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 Vols. 6:69)