Quotes by Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to...

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property...

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people...

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of...

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith

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

#Gerrit Smith