When my husband was translating the Book of Mormon, I wrote a part of it, as he dictated each sentence, word for word, and when he came to proper names he could not pronounce, or long words, he spelled them out, and while I was writing them, if I made a mistake in spelling, he would stop me and correct my spelling, although it was impossible for him to see how I was writing them down at the time. .?. . When he stopped for any purpose at any time he would, when he commenced again, begin where he left off without any hesitation, and one time while he was translating he stopped suddenly, pale as a sheet, and said, "Emma, did Jerusalem have walls around it?" When I answered, "Yes," he replied, "Oh! I was afraid I had been deceived." He had such a limited knowledge of history at the time that he did not even know that Jerusalem was surrounded by walls. ~ Emma Smith to Edmund C. Briggs, "A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856," Journal of History 9
Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine... ~ David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ (Richmond, Mo.: n.p., 1887),
[H]eaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation. . . .~ John Smith about Jamestown
[F]ree government rests, as does all progress, upon the broadest possible diffusion of knowledge. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1820
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion. ~ Thomas Jefferson
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Truth between candid minds can never do harm. ~ John Adams
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