Brigham Young Quotes

Not everything needs to be fixed

The highest wisdom of a State is a wise and masterly inactivity …

Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you can't beat it.

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

We desire you will hear and receive what we have now told you, and that you will open a good ear and listen to what we are now going to say. This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not concerned in it. We don't wish you to take up the hatchet against the king's troops. We desire you to remain at home, and not join on either side, but keep the hatchet buried deep. In the name and in behalf of all our people, we ask and desire you to love peace and maintain it, and to love and sympathize with us in our troubles; that the path may be kept open with all our people and yours, to pass and repass, without molestation.

A great man does enough for us when he refrains from doing us harm.

No nation has a right, in time of peace, to interfere with, or interrupt, any commerce which is lawful by the law of nations, and carried on between other independent powers

You don't try to fix things that aren't broken.

The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.