#the

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

— Gerrit Smith

#facts #great #honesty #i #i love

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

Precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the hearth knows how to find what is precious ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karamazov-bothers #home

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#birth #birth certificate #certificate #could #emmitt

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#always #around #been #cowboys #dallas

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#bit #comes #cruz #dancing #doing

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away. ↗

— George A. Smith

#far #gives #god #himself #infallible

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

#enthusiasm #ever #feels #god #made

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God. ↗

— George A. Smith

#god #israel #lies #life #more

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. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#back #either #heavy #heavy load #him