Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
Smith, Joseph. General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States. John Taylor, 1844, p. 15.
Individual states passed laws that impinged on Indian rights and undid the effect of previous treaties. Some tribes complained to the President. In actuality, there was Federal legislation that preempted the states, but President Jackson, as a matter of policy allowed the state action.
At the time many of the powerful and influential upper class felt that some of the laws did not necessarily apply to them or their corporations. They bribed legislators to change laws when they were inconvenient to ignore. Roosevelt was the first President to take them on.
Remarks before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith.
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.
