Joseph Smith — "I have done more than any man living to destroy the power of the devil."

"I wish to do something to distinguish myself, and so I am going to get up a religion."

"I have seen God, and I know that he lives."

"No man knows my history. I cannot tell it. I shall never tell it. I make no apologies for my life."

"If a man marry a wife by my word, which is the word of the Lord, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, according to the ordinances of my Ho…"

"We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same pr…"