Joseph Smith

Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species, and put them on a national equalization.

I believe the Bible as it read when it came from the pen of the original writers. Ignorant translators, careless transcribers, or designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors.

For behold, the Lord shall curse the land with much heat, and the barrenness thereof shall go forth forever; and there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people.

And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren...

And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.

Unless a man receives revelations, he cannot be saved.

There are two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations.

This church, being 'the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased.'

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.

It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us....

We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same principle.

It is an unchangeable decree of God, that whenever God gives a commandment to a man, if that man will not obey that commandment, he will be damned.

All spirits are pure that come from the presence of God.

I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.

The simple doctrine of the Christian Godhead, set forth in the New Testament is corrupted by the meaningless jargon of these creeds, and their explanations; and the learned who profess a belief in them are wandering in the darkness of the mysticisms of the old pagan philosophies.

And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

There is an infinite number of holy personages, drawn from worlds without number, who have passed on to exaltation and are thus gods.

For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation that was not, in the year 1820, so obscured by false tradition and ceremonies, borrowed from paganism, as to make it unrecognizable; or else it was entirely denied.

When all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the Priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we are now entitled to.