I believe that government is for the use... | Gerrit Smith

People Government

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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Thoughts Home Time Man

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

- Gerrit Smith

Enemy Right Man

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

- Gerrit Smith

Rights Man

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

Concern Nothing

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

Wrong Right Will God Man

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

Right Men

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

- Gerrit Smith

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