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

— Gerrit Smith

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ↗

— Huston Smith

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

— Gerrit Smith

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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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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. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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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. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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