Quotes from young brigham

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

I have no objection to any man coming here, but I will have nothing to do with men who will abuse me at midnight and at noon day. Our difficulties and persecutions have always arisen from men right in our midst.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

When a man is ordained an apostle, he is ordained to every calling pertaining to the priesthood, a man on the earth can hold; but when he is ordained a high priest, he is ordained a priest after the order of Melchisedek; it is then his right to officiate in all the offices below him.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.

I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

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; and 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.

Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

The apostleship is the highest authority that can be imposed upon man upon the earth.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.