Ancient Quote by Benjamin F. Johnson

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was…

— Abraham H. Cannon

Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize…

— D. Michael Quinn

The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who…

— Dallin H. Oaks

George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice…

— Daniel Walker Howe

Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members'…

— Ardyth Kennelly

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after…

— Scott Anderson

“Marriage is the union of male and female and the sharing of life together, involving both divine and human law.”

— Modestinus

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy…

— George Q. Cannon

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be…

— Brigham Young

“Clan custom and law held that it was the public declaration of intent and then living together that made a handfasting; the ceremonies simply…

— S.M. Stirling

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives…

— Pope Leo XIII

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man,…

— William Tyndale