Quotes Gerrit Smith

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be we...

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy ...

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account ...

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violatin...

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the ma...

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little a...

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and ...

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals...

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the s...

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the s...

I love the free and happy form of civil government under whi...

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike...

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes...

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mea...

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society....

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery ca...

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between...

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their s...

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, ev...

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right...

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - fro...

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

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but ...

The author is far from indulging extravagant and gloomy fore...

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect a...