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Gerrit Smith Quotes
Page 2 of 2Gerrit Smith
March 6, 1797 - December 28, 1874
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician
|  Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. | | There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. | | I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. | | There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. | | Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. | | 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. | | True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. | | 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. | | 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. | | I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. | | I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. | | 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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