Quotes by Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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.

Hills

May

Men

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

Facts

Honesty

Honesty Love

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.

America

Rights

Turkeys

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.

Assuming

Fellow Man

Men

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

Care

Littles

Men

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

Believe

Government

People

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

Canals

Construction

New Roads

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

Needs

Prove

Slavery

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

Come Up

Republican

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.

Gone

Mean

Morning

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Quotes by Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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