"If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth."

"I defy all the world to produce a greater work than the Book of Mormon."

"If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people…"

"I am not afraid to die. I shall die a martyr for the cause of Christ."

"The earth was once a garden, and it will be again. And the Saints will inherit it."