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Gerrit Smith Quotes
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming Gods place and relation towards his fellow-men. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to Gods system. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 oclock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
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