I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it…

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned,…

— Gerrit Smith

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and…

— Gerrit Smith

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…

— Gerrit Smith

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

— Gerrit Smith

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

— Gerrit Smith

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

— Gerrit Smith

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where…

— Gerrit Smith

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

— Gerrit Smith

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

— Gerrit Smith

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the…

— Gerrit Smith

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

— Gerrit Smith

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

— Gerrit Smith

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of…

— Gerrit Smith

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for…

— Gerrit Smith