Polygamy Quotes

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

Polygamy causes a lot of strife

Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.

My wives will be mine in eternity.

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.

Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.

People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.

If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.