“The Gospel of Jesus Christ will always make good men better, and if there are those who have been bad who will receive it, it will cleanse them from their sins, and bring them into fellowship with the Lord. Mormonism, as it is called, will make good citizens in this or in any other land under the sun. Those who receive the Gospel will become better for it, and the object of the Gospel is to make us better. It will make better men and better women, better husbands and better wives, better fathers and better mothers, and better children if they will only live according to its precepts.”

– Joseph F. Smith, 1906