List of 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.

I Need Say No More, To Prove That Slavery Is Entirely Unlike The Servitude In The Patriarchal Families.

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.

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 At Home, Amongst His New Thoughts, Doctrines, And Modes Of Reasoning.

I Prefer, In A Word, The Republican System, Because It Comes Up More Nearly To God's System.

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.

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.

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 Morning Session, For The Sake Of Defeating The Nebraska Bill.

My Rights All Spring Front An Infinitely Nobler Source - From Favor And Grace Of God.

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.

There Is One Class Of Men, Whom It Especially Behoves To Be Tenacious Of The Right Of Free Discussion. I Mean The Poor.

To Say, That Capt. Ingraham Violated The Rights Of Turkey, Is Nonsense.