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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower…

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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who…
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and…
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully…
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond…
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely…
I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife…
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife…
What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the…
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial…
He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher…
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and…
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race…

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed… — Judy Biggert
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful… — David Ogilvy
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. — Rick Santorum
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.… — Dennis McKinsey
Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in… — Bruce R. McConkie
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it — Elbert Hubbard
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the… — Wilford Woodruff
I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry. — Carla Bruni
It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or… — Heber C. Kimball
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

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