If this bill passes... as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.

It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first

Duty is ours; results are God's

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.