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Gerrit Smith Quotes

1797–1874 United States

Gerrit Smith (born and died in New York, USA; 6 March, 1797 – 28 December, 1874), also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist.

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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.

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.

The most effectual of all ways for making ourselves feel morally whole, and for attaining to the greatest heights of self-complacency, is to fall upon others for the sins of which we are ourselves guilty.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerrit Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.