The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it. — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example. — Tom Green Copy Share Image
If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned. — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman. — William Law Copy Share Image
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams… — Jeanne Tripplehorn Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“When did it become okay for the people who hold the Bible to be God’s absolute truth to choose which parts of… — Juliann Rich Copy Share Image
And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family;… — Benjamin F. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“My Name is Pansy Roger from Toronto, Canada. I am sharing this testimony because someone out there may have similar problem. My… — Pansy Roger Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
