President Brimhall, these children are now at play, making mud worlds, the time will come when some of these boys, through their faithfulness to the gospel, will progress and develop in knowledge, intelligence and power, in future eternities, until they shall be able to go out into space where there is unorganized matter and call together the necessary elements, and through their knowledge of and control over the laws and powers of nature, to organize matter into worlds on which their posterity may dwell, and over which they shall rule as gods. Brigham Young enters classroom, cited Improvement Era pp.658-59, June 1919
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man mixes who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses X:110
Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses XI:128
Sisters, do you wish to make yourselves happy? Then what is your duty? It is for you to bear children ... are you tormenting yourselves by thinking that your husbands do not love you? I would not care whether they loved a particle or not; but I would cry out, like one of old, in the joy of my heart, ‘I have got a man from the Lord! Hallelujah! I am a mother – I have borne, an image of God!’ Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses IX:37
Some years ago I advanced a doctrine with regard to Adam being our Father and God ... It is one of the most glorious revealments of the economy of heaven. Brigham Young, general conference address 8th October 1861
Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them, you would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the kingdom of God.
I would at once do so in such a case; under such circumstances. I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses III:247
That slavery will continue, until there is a people raised up upon the face of the earth who will contend for righteous principles, who will not only believe in but operate, with every power and faculty given to them to help to establish the kingdom of God, to overcome the devil, and drive him from the earth, then will this curse be removed. This was the starting point of slavery. Brigham Young, address joint session of legislature 23rd January 1852
The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood – was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses VIII:115
The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses VIII:171
The doctrine he teaches is all I know about the matter, bring anything against that if you can. As to anything else I do not care. If he acts like a devil, he has brought forth a doctrine that will save us, if we will abide it. He may get drunk every day of his life, sleep with his neighbor’s wife every night, run horses and gamble, I do not care anything about that, for I never embrace any man in my faith. But the doctrine he has produced will save you and me, and the whole world; and if you can find fault with that, find it. He said, ‘I have done.’ Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses IV:77
The doctrines of salvation are the same now as they were in the days of Adam. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses V:229
The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man ... He once possessed a body, as we now do; and our bodies are as much to us, as his body to him. Every iota of this organization is necessary to secure for us an exaltation with the Gods. Brigham Young, Salt Lake Tabernacle 23rd February 1862, ‘True Character of God’; viz also Journal of Discourses IX:286
The Indians are citizens, the Africans are citizens, and the Jews than come from Asia, that are almost entirely of the blood of Cain. It is our duty to take care of them, and administer to them in all the acts of humanity, and kindness, they shall have the right of Citizenship, but shall not have the right to dictate in Church and State matters. The abolitionists of the east ... their whole argument are calculated to darken Counsel, as it was here yesterday. As for our bills passing here, we may lay the foundation for what? For men to come here from Africa or else where; by hundreds of thousands. When these men come here from the Islands, are they going to hold offices in Government? No. It is for men who understand the knowledge of Government affairs to hold such offices, and on the other make provisions for them to plough, and to reap, and enjoy all that human beings can enjoy, and we protect them in it. Do we know how to ameliorate the condition of these people? We do. Suppose that five thousands of them come from the Pacific Islands, and ten or fifteen thousand from Japan, or from China, not one soul of them would know how to vote for a Government officer, they therefore ought not in the first thing have anything to do in Government affairs.
What the Gentiles are doing we are consenting to do. What we are trying to do to day is to make the Negro equal with us in all our privilege. My voice shall be against all the day long. I shall not consent for one moment. I will call them a counsel. I say I will not consent for one moment for you to lay a plan to bring a curse upon this people. I shall not be while I am here. Brigham Young, address joint session of legislature 23rd January 1852
The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven, in power and great glory, nor send His messengers panoplied with aught else than the truth of heaven, to communicate to the meek, the lowly, the youth of humble origin, the sincere enquirer after the knowledge of God. But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith Junior who afterwards became a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, and informed him that he should not join any of the religious sects of the day, for they were all wrong; that they were following the precepts of men instead of the Lord Jesus; that He had a work for him to perform, inasmuch as he should prove faithful before Him. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses II:171
[T]he man whom God calls to dictate affairs in the building of his Zion has the right to dictate about everything connected with the building up of Zion, yes even to the ribbons the women wear; and any person who denies it is ignorant. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses VII:19
The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon and David. They have now and then a thing which is correct, but we have the real thing. Brigham Young
The moment we consent to mingle with the seed of Cain the Church must go to destruction – we should receive the curse which has been placed upon the seed of Cain, and never more be numbered with the children of Adam who are heirs to the priesthood until that curse be removed. Brigham Young, New York Herald 4th May 1855, cited Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Spring p56, 1973
The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses XI:269
The principle, the only one that beats and throbs through the heart of the entire inhabitants of this Territory, is simply this: The man who seduces his neighbor’s wife must die, and her nearest relative must kill him! Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses I:97
There is no repentance without suffering ... You do your greatest service when you require the sinner to suffer. Branch Presidents’ Handbook of Instructions
The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon and David. They have now and then a thing which is correct, but we have the real thing. Brigham Young
The moment we consent to mingle with the seed of Cain the Church must go to destruction – we should receive the curse which has been placed upon the seed of Cain, and never more be numbered with the children of Adam who are heirs to the priesthood until that curse be removed. Brigham Young, New York Herald 4th May 1855, cited Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Spring p56, 1973
The principle, the only one that beats and throbs through the heart of the entire inhabitants of this Territory, is simply this: The man who seduces his neighbor’s wife must die, and her nearest relative must kill him! Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses I:97