I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.

Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?