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Gerrit Smith

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

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

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"At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly."

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
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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."
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"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights."
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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."
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"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."
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"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
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"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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