Whatever happens, the Lord is in it.

I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latter day Saintism. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be kicked out of their church. I want the liberty of believing as I please, it feels so good not to be tramelled.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

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.

Whatever happens, the Lord is in it.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.