Joseph Smith — "I am a friend to the poor, and an enemy to oppression."

"I am a friend to all good men."

"I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities,…"

"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."

"I am a man of temperance, and I will be temperate in all things."

"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."