(Brigham Young) "I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security, trusting their eternal destiny in the hands of their leaders with a reckless confidence that in itself would thwart the purposes of God in their salvation, and weaken that influence they could give to their leaders, did they know for themselves, by the revelations of Jesus, that they are led in the right way. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not."
A journalist described Brigham Young as "a self-reliant and strong-willed man … one born to be master of himself and many others." But his children remember him as an "easy touch." He himself declared, "I do not rule my family with an iron hand, as many do, but in kindness and with p
leasant words; and if soft words would teach them, they would know as much as any family on this earth."
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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