“I teach the people correct principles and they govern themselves.”

Quoted by John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, 10:57-58 (18 May 1862)
When asked how he governed his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.

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