1. Joseph Smith to the Church, September 7, 1842, in PJS, 2:473‒74.

  2. Joseph Smith to All the Saints, September 1, 1842, in PWJS 571.

  3. 2 Samuel 11:26–27.

  4. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. (Psalm 43:1)

  5. Brigham Young, delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, September 21, 1856.

  6. Karl Rove as quoted in an interview with Ron Suskind.