You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed....And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation.

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away.