Joseph Smith — "I am willing to die for a cause, but not for a lie."

"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 b…"

"You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from a small degree to another, from grace to grace, fr…"

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

"If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth."

"I am a man of brotherly kindness, and I will be kind to all men."