After their tour, each leader spoke in his own language. Harper said the ruins were “a symbol here of our determination to build a new future for all inhabitants of North America.”In a pre-trip interview, Bush said he thought the two sides were “pretty close to a deal a couple of years ago.” He said it would not be resolved through public negotiations: “It’s going to require some very quiet consultations.” (Article Link)
…unless the people of America forsake the sins and the errors, political and otherwise, of which they are now guilty and return to the practice of the great fundamental principles of Christianity, and of Constitutional government, there will be no exaltation for them spiritually, and politically we shall lose our liberty and free institutions. (Heber J. Grant also J. Reuben Clark, Jr. and David O. McKay signed as the First Presidency, written during World War II. Letter to the U.S. Treasury. September 30, 1941)
And I say unto you, that if the Gentiles do not repent after the blessing which they shall receive, after they have scattered my people—Then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of Jacob, go forth among them; and ye shall be in the midst of them who shall be many; and ye shall be among them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. (Christ predicting one of the terrors to befall the Gentiles. 3 Nephi 20:15-16.)
Behold, it is expedient that much should be done among this people, because of the hardness of their hearts, and the deafness of their ears, and the blindness of their minds, and the stiffness of their necks; nevertheless, God is exceedingly merciful unto them, and has not as yet swept them off from the face of the land. (Jarom 1:3)