Quotes on Religious History

For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.