"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." This quote was from a discourse by Joseph Smith Jr. (the prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) on July 19, 1840, as reported by...