"I am a friend to the poor, and I have always been so."

"I am a prophet of God, and I know it."

"If you are ever called to bear a message to the people, do not go without your purse or your scrip, but go forth in the name of the Lord."

"I have the oldest Bible in the world; I have examined it, and there is nothing in it that conflicts with the revelations of God."

"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…"