"I do not regard my own life. I am ready to be offered a sacrifice for this people; for what can our enemies do? Only kill the body, and their power is then at an end. Stand firm, my friends; never flinch. Do not seek to save your lives, for he that is afraid to die for the truth will lose eternal life."
(Joseph Smith, in his last public address to a large congregation in Nauvoo, George Q. Cannon, Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet, pg. 498)
"When a man gives his life for the cause he has advocated, he meets the highest test of his honesty and sincerity that his own or any future generation can in fairness ask. When he dies for the testimony he has borne, all malicious tongues should ever after be silent, and all voices hushed in reverence before a sacrifice so complete."
(Ezra Dalby, speech given December 12, 1926)
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