“Cash is not food, it is not clothing, it is not coal, it is not shelter,…” (Church News, April 20, 1946)
“This welfare plan is the answer to all home supplies…if we come into dire times than all the financial plans of the world will have no value. You can’t eat money.” (Deseret News, December 31, 1955)
From an article in The Improvement Era by Harold B. Lee for Pres. Clark’s 90th birthday September 1961:
“We heard him reply in answer to a question as to why he had put his life savings into his presently owned Grantsville ranch; ‘This is all I have to leave to my family when I die, and if they are not too lazy to work it, they won’t starve. I have told them that when the first atomic bomb is dropped here in America, that they are to go out there on the ranch and stay until it is over.’ This last seemed not only to be wise council, but also a prophecy. His only son, J. Reuben Clark III, is the family steward of this practical and foresighted legacy.”
