If [the mobs] will not let us alone, we will take the musket and the sword in one hand, the trowel and the hammer in the other, and build up the Zion of our God; and they cannot prevent it.
– Brigham Young, 3/4/1860
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cachemagic
November 25, 2015 @ 9:20 am
But of course it didn’t happen. So much for Brigham’s bravado. It takes Zion people to establish Zion, not some strong man saying that the establishment of Zion will not be stopped.