All Gerrit Smith Quotes
- Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. Exertion
- But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. Account
- 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,… Back Tell
- It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously… Broken
- I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. Entirely
- 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… Asserted
- There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. Decrepit
- There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. Behoves
- We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. Continue
- True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. Ceased
- When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but… Advocacy
- I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society. Anti
- Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. Any
- 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. Anti
- 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… Claim
- To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. Charter
- 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. America
- I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. Believe
- 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… Forbidden
- 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… Belligerents
- I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. God
- God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation… Absolute
- I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. Canals
- I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. Care
- My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. All