"I am a warm advocate of the cause of humanity."

"God did not make the earth out of nothing—for it is contrary to a rational mind and reason that a something could be brought from a nothing."

"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 will preach on the stand what I preach in the pulpit."