The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.

You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States, or candidate for that office, if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens, even those rights which the Constitution guarantees unto all her citizens alike.