“I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.” PeopleMenMeanDoeStatesEnoughWholeGovernmentEnjoyCommunityReligiousRightsProtectAccountsConstitutionFaultsRefusePunishmentSentimentsBroadsOfficersInterfereReligious FreedomReligious Rights Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.” PeopleWorldTogetherPlansCouncilMormonism Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.” PeopleIfsHeavenSinBreakGods WillSuperstitionsBreaking DownAccusers Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.” PeopleNationsFreedomPiecesBearsDestructionConstitutionRuinsStaffVergeCrumblingTumbling Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.” PeopleMindPersonsHandsSinWatchesKindnessAnd LoveManifestTendernessForsakeLdsPow Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.” PeopleGivingEndsLawAmountGloryCommandmentsInstituteOrdinances Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.” PeopleMenEndsHandsNationsCommunityWiseEmbraceRighteousnessPossessedHand In HandExaltationKnowledge Is PowerLds Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.” PeopleVisionGloryHundredPreparedKingdomsFolds Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldSoulWholeGodWould BeEyeChristianDesireFaithAsksJesusBeliefReligiousLordBlessingEmbraceChristian InspirationalWhat IfThrowingMissionaryTrust In GodFoundersGospelCommitment To GodConfidence In GodIntimacy With GodServant Of GodGreatness Of GodFollowing JesusGod Within UsMighty GodConnecting With God Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.” PeopleCountryHandsAmericaSpeakFreedomLibertyRightsCitizensConstitutionUnionsOur CountryProphetGuaranteesFriendlyFlagsFoe Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.” PeopleIfsMadeCountryDoneAmericaFreedomLibertyViolenceTroubleProtectConstitutionInstitutionsInnocentOur CountryMade ItEnduranceInjuredPersecuted Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people's rights.” PeopleAmericaFreedomLibertyBreakRightsFeetLoversConstitutionPunishmentGloriousIronOppressors Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness.” PeopleShouldSaidAmericaLawHeavenStarsFreedomPrayerLibertySunWiseRightsBearsOughtMoonEqualExpectationsConstitutionUnionsSaintTreatedWitnessAdministrationAspirationBroadsVirtuousEqual RightsSanctityCharterMoon And StarsSun MoonSun Moon And Stars Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.” PeopleSaidStatesAmericaFormOrderJusticeFreedomPerfectUnitedCommonLibertyUnited StatesConditionsColorBlessingConstitutionUnionsDefenseSecureWelfareAdsUnited States Of AmericaTranquilityPosterityConstitution Of The United StatesUs ConstitutionGeneral WelfarePreambleCommon DefenseDomestic Tranquility Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender... The legislature has ceded up to us the privilege of enacting such laws as are not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States... The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States.” PeopleDifferentStatesAmericaLawFreedomUnitedLibertyUnited StatesConstitutionCongressPrivilegeContraryEmpoweringLegislatureInconsistentConstitution Of The United States Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens of Illinois have done themselves honor, in throwing the mantle of the Constitution over a persecuted and afflicted people.” PeopleMayDoneAmericaReligiousFreedomLibertyCitizensHonorBlessingConstitutionEnjoymentThrowingPersecutedReligious LibertyIllinois Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.” PeopleMayCountryAmericaFatherMemoriesFreedomLibertyDemocracyBloodCryStandardsConstitutionSacredOur CountryOur FatherAmen Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.” PeopleShouldAmericaLawFreedomLibertyLordPrinciplesRightsHolyConstitutionProtectionFlesh Book:The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations Source: The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations
