Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

It is clearly useless to preach the limitation of the family and to conceal the means whereby such limitation may be effected.

… any action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible

The more affluent women become, the less likely they are to have more children

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.

God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn't. That decision doesn't belong to us.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth.