Quotes from Brigham Young

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

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.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

If you love the truth, you can remember it.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

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

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.

If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

Love the giver more than the gift.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

This is the place!