Ezra Taft Benson on Communism

I’ve been looking for some audio of this quote for a while. A friend sent this to me yesterday and I wanted to share it with you. The audio comes from Glen Beck who plays a quote from Ezra Taft Benson about how communism will gradually take over the United States. It is a very telling quote.

“I have talked face to face with the godless communist leaders. It may surprise you to learn that I was host to Mr. Kruschev for a half day when he visited the United States, not that I’m proud of it. I opposed his coming then, and I still feel it was a mistake to welcome this atheistic murderer as a state visitor. But, according to President Eisenhower, Kruschev had expressed a desire to learn something of American Agriculture and after seeing Russian agriculture I can understand why. As we talked face to face, he indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I expected to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren will live under freedom he arrogantly declared in substance:

‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.’”

Ezra T Benson,Our Immediate Responsibility. BYU Devotional, October 25, 1966.

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