"I told them I was a good boy, and if I had done anything wrong, I was willing to be corrected."

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the vail was rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orb…"

"I have a right to reveal all things, and to teach all things."

"I have been in the midst of more wickedness and persecution than any man living."

"I told them I was a Prophet of God, and had a right to obtain revelations, and that I should not be trammelled by men."