"...When therefore, constitutional law, obedient to these principles, calls the manhood of the church into the armed services of any country to which they owe allegiance, their highest civic duty requires that they meet that call. If, harkening to that call and obeying those in command over them, they shall take the lives of those who fight against them, that will not make of them murderers nor subject them to the penalty that God has prescribed for those who kill,... For it would be a cruel God that would punish his children as moral sinners for acts done by them as the innocent instrumentalities of a sovereing whom he had told them to obey and whom they were powerless to resist."

Heber J. Grant
J. Rueben Clark
David O. McKay