"Where, then, is the sacrifice this people have ever made? There is no such thing - they have only exchanged a worse condition for a better one."

"Where, then, is the sacrifice this people have ever made?  There is no such thing - they have only exchanged a worse condition for a better one, every time they have been moved - they have exchanged ignorance for knowledge, and inexperience for its opposite."

"I wish to ask those persons who were driven from Jackson County, if they suffered as much in the actual driving as they would have done in the anticipation of it a year before it took place?  You will all reply that, if you had known it a year beforehand, you would not have endured the thought.  I wish to apply this both ways.  You that have not passed through the trials, and persecutions, and drivings, with this people, from the beginning, but have only read of them, or heard some of them related, may think how awful they were to endure, and wonder that the Saints survived them at all.  The thought of it makes your hearts sink within you, your brains reel, and your bodies tremble, and you are ready to exclaim, 'I could not have endured it.'  I have been in the heat of it, and I never felt better in all my life; I never felt the peace and power of the Almighty more copiously poured upon me than in the keenest part of our trials.  They appeared nothing to me.  I hear people talk about their troubles, their sore privations, and the great sacrifices they have made for the Gospel's sake.  It never was a sacrifice to me.  Anything I can do or suffer in the cause of the Gospel, is only like dropping a pin into the sea; the blessings, gifts, powers, honor, joy, truth, salvation, glory, immortality, and eternal lives, as far outswell anything I can do in return for such precious gifts, as the great ocean exceeds in expansion, bulk, and weight, the pin that I drop into it.  ...

"I was as ready to pass through the scenes of mobbing and driving in Jackson County, as I was to pass through the troubles in Kirtland, Ohio; in Davies and Caldwell Counties, Missouri; in Illinois; and up to this place.  And what of it?  I have not known or seen a single sacrifice that this people have made.  There has not been one such providence of the Almighty to this people, that was not calculated to sanctify the pure in heart, and enrich them with blessings instead of curses - enrich them not only with earthly blessings, but with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives in the presence of God.  Where, then, is the sacrifice this people have ever made?  There is no such thing - they have only exchanged a worse condition for a better one, every time they have been moved - they have exchanged ignorance for knowledge, and inexperience for its opposite."  - Brigham Young ("The Privileges and Blessings of the Gospel," Salt Lake City, February 20, 1853, Journal of Discourses Vol. 1, p. 313-314.)