Wilford Woodruff
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- "If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether." -Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p.166 1869
- "We gazed with wonder and admiration upon the vast rich fertile valley which lay for about 25 miles in length & 16 miles in width Clothed with the Heaviest garb of green vegitation in the midst of which lay a large lake of Salt water . . . After gazing awhile upon the seenery we travled across the table land into the valley 4 miles to the encampment of our Brethren who had arived 2 days before. [-] they had pitched there encampment upon the bank of two small streams of pure water & had commenced plowing. Had broke about 5 acres of ground & commenced planting Potatoes." -In his journal, July 24, 1847
- "But when we came to this country, what did we find here? A barren desert as barren as the Desert of Sahara; and the only signs of life were a few black crickets, some cayote wolves, and a few poor wandering Indians." (Journal of Discourses, Vol 19, p. 224, September 16, 1877)
- "The Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called." -Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p.196
- "The Lord Almighty never created a world like this and peopled it for six thousand years, as He has done, without having some motive in view." -Journal of Discourses, vol. 25, p.9 January 6, 1884l The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p. 8