“We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.”

— Joseph Smith, Jr. , book Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine and Covenants, 121:39 (20 March 1839)
1830s

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