Russell M. Nelson at America’s Freedom Festival, Provo, Utah, July 1, 1990 said:
“Personal example is more eloquent than exhortation. There is a real difference between false freedom and true freedom. It is the difference between doing what we wish to do and doing what we ought to do. License to do wrong does not justify wrongdoing.
Even though most of us will not be called upon directly to help nations to develop there newly found freedoms, all of us can participate by making certain the flame of freedom burns brightly and correctly within our souls.
By example, we can show that political freedom provides personal freedom and that personal freedom deserves to be safeguarded from surrender to pornography or to chemical compounds. We must have inner strength to protect personal freedom and preserve us from the yoke of bondage. Children of God cannot be weaklings. Surely, discipline is requisite to discipleship.
To develop self-discipline, we must confine our individual actions within the bounds prescribed by the law of the land, moral law, and divine law. When one’s individual actions are sternly disciplined to conform with those limits, then the full expression of one’s freedom can be enjoyed. (quoted here from “Teachings of Russell M. Nelson” (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1989) 126-27
