What did Gerrit Smith mean by: My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source – from favor and grace of God. Gerrit Smith Copy
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Facts, Honesty, Love, 0 Gerrit Smith
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Concern, Slavery, Theory, 0 Gerrit Smith
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Deception, Justice, Reality, 0 Gerrit Smith
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Equality, Liberty, Rights, 0 Gerrit Smith
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Diversity, Inclusivity, Unity, 0 Gerrit Smith
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God’s system. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Comparison, Godliness, Republicanism, 0 Gerrit Smith
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Peace, Slavery, War, 0 Gerrit Smith
Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gerrit Smith, Mercy, Rights, Truth, 0 Gerrit Smith
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second. Jerry Holkins
Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives. Jerome Lejeune Geneticist · France
