quotes about Polygamy
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The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.
-- B. H. Roberts -
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy
-- Brigham Young -
I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.
-- Carla BruniSource : "Sacre Bleu: It's Official!" by Lama Hasan, abcnews.go.com. February 3, 2008.
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Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.
-- D. Michael Quinn -
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
-- Elbert Hubbard -
If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.
-- George Q. Cannon -
Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
-- John Densmore -
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This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.
-- Wilford Woodruff -
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.
-- Sadakat Kadri -
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
-- Tom Green -
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My wives will be mine in eternity.
-- Joseph Fielding SmithSource : Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”