Joseph Smith — "If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not s…"

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.
Joseph Smith — Joseph Smith Modern · Founder of Mormonism

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Statement attributed to Joseph Smith, though widely debated and often taken as an example of his controversial stance on legal authority and polygamy.

Date: 1844

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