Church Quote by Daniel Walker Howe

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

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

You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

— Heber C. Kimball

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

The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded…

— William Law

“It is one of the great ironies of Mormon history that Smith, who set the polygamous movement in motion, never experienced it in practical…

— Todd M. Compton

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

In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him.…

— Benjamin F. Johnson

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Mormons believe that when they get married in this life, they stay married in the next. I was thinking that we should convert to…

— Tarryn Fisher

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy,…

— Jedediah M. Grant

There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed…

— Wilford Woodruff