George Q. Cannon Quotes

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

George Q. Cannon

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• If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

  

  George Q. Cannon
  • Marriage
  • Destroy
  • Divine