Top 32 Quotes by Gerrit Smith

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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