Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes
I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.
Smith, Joseph. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Vol. 6, Deseret News, 1912, p. 411.
Clinton later admitted to fallatio, claimed he was referring to sexual intercourse, and apologized for misleading the American people.
Jackson's Secretary of War, John Henry Eaton, 1790-1856, had been having an affair with a married woman with a proclivity toward promiscuity. Her husband committed suicide and Eaton married her causing one of the great scandals of American history. It split Andrew Jackson's cabinet and ended with Jackson, who supported Eaton, replacing the entire cabinet except the Postmaster General. Vice President John C. Calhoun's chances for the Presidency died as he and Jackson broke over this scandal.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a great scientist who had created the famous Periodic Table of the Elements. He was also the major science advisor to the Czar and his government. He had been divorced but had not waited the required 7 years before remarrying. Therefore according to Russian religious law at the time, he was legally a bigamist, and could not hold a position in the government and should be prosecuted. A complaint was made to the Czar and this was his reply. There are a few scholars who do not feel this quotation was documented well enough to be accepted.
Joseph Smith, Jr. was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that continues to the present.
