The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.