Quote#God & Faith
Which would you part with first-your tobacco, your whisky, or your…
Quote byBrigham Young · 1801–1877
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Journal of Discourses 8:140 (August 5, 1860).
English (original)
Which would you part with first-your tobacco, your whisky, or your religion? Your tea, or your religion? Which would you shake hands with and bid good-bye for ever-your coffee, or your religion? I should think I had disgraced the man that stands before you this day, if I loved any object on the earth better than I love my religion and my God.
— Brigham Young
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