“[The American] nation [will be] broken in pieces as a potter’s vessel and laid in the dust … you live in the day and hour of the judgments of God Almighty … I wish to warn all nations of the judgments of God which are at the doors. Thrones will be cast down, nations will be overturned, anarchy will reign, all legal barriers will be broken down, and the laws will be trampled in the dust. You are about to be visited with war, the sword, famine, pestilence, plague, earthquakes, whirlwinds, tempests, and with the flame of devouring fire, by fire and with the sword will God plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord will be many.”

Wilford Woodruff – 21 April 1879, Millennial Star – Volume 41, no. 16 (Liverpool, England: William Budge, 1879), 241-245