Wilford Woodruff Quotes

Being honest with you, if I would run into a situation where I'd have to pick up a firearm to save another child, would I? Absolutely! I wouldn't even think about it. I rescue people and feed people. I will do whatever I have to do, as long as it's within the law, to rescue a life.

Saving lives is the top morality.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of state?

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

The most important thing for us is to save lives.

We have to save as many lives as we possibly can.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

I don't see how anyone could really think that if you have a choice between saving the life of one person and saving the lives of a million people, to say - well, I've saved the one - can you really take that seriously? I can't.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

I think that there are certain principles which should guide decision-making for a president. One such principle was that we're all God's children, and every life is precious. To me, that's a moral statement.

If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life. Well, you just threw away a baby but the heart's valuable. That's the horror and the terror and the hypocrisy that nobody can understand. We base communities on the idea of protecting children based on the sacrifice of adults. Adults work and die so that their next generation would grow and prosper.