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Gerrit Smith quotes

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

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

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

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