Occupation: Founding Figure Birth: June 1, 1801 Death: August 29, 1877
Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are….
I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administr….
You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible fr….
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through..
Learn to be good for something..
God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist.
We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, alt….
The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far ….
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, c….
Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite….
Who can justly say aught against Joseph Smith? I was as well acquainted with him, as any man. I do not believe that his father and mother knew him an….
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil..
Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin..
My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put….
We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly hon….
I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I c….
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by H….
In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there neve….
It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their ….
The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in thre….
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world….