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

- Gerrit Smith

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of hu…

- 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.

- Gerrit Smith

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

- Gerrit Smith

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

- Gerrit Smith

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards …

- Gerrit Smith

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

- Gerrit Smith

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

- Gerrit Smith

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

- Gerrit Smith