"I have the best of feelings for all men, and I wish them all to be saved."

"I am not afraid of death. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men."

"I have a testimony that the Book of Mormon is true, and I know that God lives."

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!"

"I defy all the world to find a passage in the Bible where the Lord says that He ever authorized a man to make a king, or a priest, or even a prophet, without first giving him a vision or by the minist…"