J. Reuben Clark
“I have a complete confidence in the aggregate wisdom of the…people, if they are given and made to understand the facts. The wisdom of the mass is always greater than the wisdom of the individual or of the group. The few may be more subtle, more agile-minded, more resourceful; they may for a time push to the front and scamper ahead in the march; they may on occasion and for a time entice us down the wrong highway at the crossroads. But the great slow-moving, deliberate-thinking mass plods along over the years down the divinely appointed way. Led astray, they slowly, cumberously swing back to the right road, no matter what the toil or the sacrifice may be, and when they start the return, they crush whatever lies in their path. So has humanity come up through the ages.” (Prophets, Principles, and National Survival, compiled by J. L. Newquist, p. 110)
Harold B. Lee
"Those who have served as public officials soon learn that there is always the imperative necessity of deciding whether or not demands on a controversial issue are being made by a well-organized loud minority or by a greater majority of those who might be less vocal but whose cause is just and in accordance with righteous principles. Always we would do well to reflect upon the counsel of a wise king of ancient times:
’Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore…do your business by the voice of the people.’ (Mosiah 29:26.)
"Let this counsel be our counsel to our church members and the honorable of the earth everywhere. Be alert and active in your business and political interests. The great danger in any society is apathy and a failure to be alert to the issues of the day, when applied to principles or to the election of public officials.
The fourth certainty to keep in mind in our civic responsibility is to choose those to govern us as ’civil officers and magistrates [who will] enforce the laws and ... administer the law in equity and justice’ (D&C 134:3), as we are admonished by inspired men of God.
"In a word, we must seek for statesmanlike men who will ask, ’Is it right and is it good for the country or the community?’ instead of those who may merely ask, ’Is it politically expedient?’ (Ye Are the Light of the World, chapter 22)
Harold B. Lee
"When election draws near we hear members say, ‘Why doesn’t the Church tell us how to vote?’ I cannot think of anything that would bring about a greater wholesale apostasy than if we would assume to do that. I say, the Lord has told you how to vote. You read Section 134, verse 3, of the D&C, where the Lord said,
We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people if a republic, or the will of the sovereign.
"That is what the Lord said. Then I say to them, read Mosiah’s wise counsel, when he said, (quotes Mosiah 29:25-26.)
“I have said to them, ’If you do not know how to vote after you have read those two things, you are dumber than I think you are.’ Any true Latter-day Saint can know how to vote.” (BYU Speeches of the Year, 1965, p. 9)