The Constitution Will Be Saved
Joseph Smith
Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution is on the brink of ruin this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.
(I Have A Question, Ensign Magazine, June 1976)
Brigham Young
Will the Constitution be destroyed? No: it will be held inviolate by this people; and, as Joseph Smith said, “The time will come when the destiny of the nation will hang upon a single thread. At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.” It will be so.
(Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, Page 15)
John Taylor
When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States, the Elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men, and extending the hand of fellowship to the oppressed of all nations.
(Journal of Discourses, Volume 21, Page 8)
Wilford Woodruff
The Prophet Joseph Smith had said the time would come when the principles of the Constitution would be forsaken and that instrument would be rent asunder, and this people would then step forward and rescue it from entire destruction.
(Journal History of the Church, April 6 1882, Page 3)
Lorenzo Snow
They (the Latter-day Saints) will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
(Journal History of the Church, September 15 1898, Page 3)
Joseph F. Smith
Joseph Smith, the prophet, predicted that the time would come when the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread, and that the Latter-day Saints above all other people in the world would come to the rescue of that great and glorious palladium of our liberty. We cannot brook the thought of it being torn into shreds, or destroyed, or trampled under foot and ignored by men.
(The Mexican Trouble-Loyalty to the Constitution, The Improvement Era, December 1912, Page 101)
Harold B Lee
Teachers, hold up before your students the prophetic statement of the Prophet Joseph Smith – that if and when our inspired Constitution should hang as by a thread, there would be prepared, well-qualified defenders of the faith of our fathers, the elders of this church, who would step forth and save the Constitution from destruction.
(Ye Are the Light of the World, Page 118)
Joseph Fielding Smith
The statement has been made that the Prophet [Joseph Smith] said the time would come when this Constitution would hang as by a thread, and this is true. There has been some confusion, however, as to just what he said following this. I think that Elder Orson Hyde has given us a correct interpretation wherein he says that the Prophet said the Constitution would be in danger. Said Orson Hyde: I believe he said something like this – that the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and said he: “If the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church.” I believe this is about the language, as nearly as I can recollect it.
(Founded in the Wisdom of God, The Improvement Era, May 1950, Page 416)
Ezra Taft Benson
We are fast approaching that moment prophesied by Joseph Smith when he said: “Even this nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction”
(Our Divine Constitution, General Conference, October 1987)