I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.
If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.
Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy.
If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.
I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.
How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me – namely that Adam is our Father and God –...
He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ.
This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.
The best remedy for anger is delay.
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father.
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.