Dean L. Larsen Quotes

Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

Dean L. Larsen

• Practice
• Understand
• Endure
• Freedoms
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• Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

  

  Dean L. Larsen
  • Practice
  • Understand
  • Endure