Gerrit's Quotes

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. — Gerrit Smith

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. — Gerrit Smith

Development and prosperity of the world cannot happen without the simultaneous development of India and China. — Li Keqiang

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change. — Marsha Blackburn

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

You are that what you cannot lose. — Gerrit Komrij

It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view. — Deborah Moggach

Our business was done at the river's brink; — Robert Browning

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

All happiness is a form of innocence. — Marguerite Yourcenar

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique. — Santiago Calatrava

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

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. — Gerrit Smith

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

I love the words, because they love me too. — M.F. Moonzajer

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith

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

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

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society. — Gerrit Smith

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

This is the province that pioneered dreaming big, — Paul Martin

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. — Gerrit Noordzij

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. — Gerrit Smith

Places have their own characters ... But the people begin to look the same. — Joanne Harris

We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress. — Gerrit W. Gong

There is no promise in the world that is okay to break. — Choi Woo-shik

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. — Gerrit Smith

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

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. — Gerrit Smith

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

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional. — Zach Anner