I calculated to be one of the instruments of setting up the kingdom of Daniel by the word of the Lord, and I intended to lay a foundation that would revolutionize the whole world.
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"I defy all the world to show a more perfect law than the one that is given to us."
"I told them I was a Prophet of God, and had a right to obtain revelations, and that I should not be trammelled by men."
"All spirits are pure that come from the presence of God."
"I am a champion of liberty, and an advocate for the rights of man."
"I am a man of humility, and I will be humble in all things."
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Smith believed he was divinely appointed to literally build God's prophesied kingdom on earth — not metaphorically, but as an actual institution. He saw himself as an active co-creator with God, not a passive receiver. His aim was total civilizational transformation, a new world order anchored in restored scripture and divine authority, with global reach. Ambition and religious duty were, for him, identical forces driving toward a single monumental purpose.
Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830 in upstate New York, built Nauvoo, Illinois into one of America's largest cities, and by 1844 led tens of thousands of followers. He ran for U.S. president that same year and secretly established a Council of Fifty tasked with governing a literal theocratic kingdom of God on earth. This quote captures exactly who he was: a man who genuinely saw institutional religion and world-historical destiny as inseparable from his personal calling.
The 1830s–1840s were the height of the Second Great Awakening, when America's Protestant culture buzzed with millennial expectation and divine national purpose. Dozens of new religious movements competed for souls. Daniel's prophecy of a stone that would crush empires and fill the earth carried urgent political weight in this climate. Simultaneously, Manifest Destiny framed American expansion as sacred mission, making Smith's vision of a worldwide kingdom sound not fringe but culturally legible to many contemporaries.
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