Top 25 Gerrit Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

Gerrit Smith Quote: “True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “Life is short. Let us hasten to say what we believe men need to have said, even though we shall be hated for saying it.”

3. “Life is short. Let us hasten to say what we believe men need to have said, even though we shall be hated for saying it.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”

4. “True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.”

9. “To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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 towards his fellow-men.”

10. “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 towards his fellow-men.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source – from favor and grace of God.”

11. “My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source – from favor and grace of God.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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 contrivance.”

14. “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 contrivance.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.”

15. “There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God’s system.”

17. “I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God’s system.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.”

18. “Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”

19. “To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.”

22. “There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.”

23. “I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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 it.”

24. “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 it.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.”

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

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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Gerrit Smith Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

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