Gerrit Smith quote: "As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men."

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself...
GERRIT SMITH

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute powe...
GERRIT SMITH

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, ...
GERRIT SMITH

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
GERRIT SMITH

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

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

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

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash a...
GERRIT SMITH

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussio...
GERRIT SMITH

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. ...
GERRIT SMITH

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal famili...
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

I think we can cope with that.
GERRIT ZALM

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will com...
GERRIT ZALM

By my assessment, I am looking at an optimistic scenario whereby I hope the combination of the two b...
GERRIT ZALM

I am also delighted that a fully-fledged government will soon be in place once more,
GERRIT ZALM

I think the final growth percentage for this year will start with a 1,
GERRIT ZALM

Europe can now play the role on the international stage that its economic weight entitles it to,
GERRIT ZALM

is no longer a partner we can trust, and we want new elections, preferably as soon as possible. It's...
GERRIT ZALM

I want elections as soon as possible. ...The most natural formula is that the cabinet resigns and we...
GERRIT ZALM

everybody worries about that.
GERRIT ZALM

We want to offer better products and a broader product line than our local competitors and outperfor...
GERRIT VAN HUISSTEDE

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my ...
EMMITT SMITH

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i...
ZADIE SMITH

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH

When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH

I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH

Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH

The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organ...
ZADIE SMITH

Don't confuse honours with achievement.
ZADIE SMITH

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did,...
ZADIE SMITH

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
ZADIE SMITH

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fonde...
ZADIE SMITH

There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu...
ZADIE SMITH

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...
ZADIE SMITH

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautio...
ZADIE SMITH

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...
ZADIE SMITH

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of bein...
ZADIE SMITH

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong s...
ZADIE SMITH

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it....
ZADIE SMITH

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equa...
ZADIE SMITH

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist...
ZADIE SMITH

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ...
ZADIE SMITH

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
ZADIE SMITH

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
YEARDLEY SMITH

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
YEARDLEY SMITH

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
YEARDLEY SMITH

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sport...
YEARDLEY SMITH

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
YEARDLEY SMITH

My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband...
TASHA SMITH

I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist help...
TASHA SMITH

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w...
TASHA SMITH

We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being h...
TASHA SMITH

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't wan...
TASHA SMITH

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a...
TASHA SMITH

Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work ...
TASHA SMITH

When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t...
TASHA SMITH

I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great opti...
TASHA SMITH

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of ...
TASHA SMITH

There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I c...
TASHA SMITH

Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he&...
TASHA SMITH

I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
TASHA SMITH

I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... wor...
TASHA SMITH

When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check whe...
TASHA SMITH

I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go...
TASHA SMITH

No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha...
TASHA SMITH

I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got t...
TASHA SMITH

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be ev...
TASHA SMITH

Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, ma...
TASHA SMITH

Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new ...
TASHA SMITH

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afrai...
TASHA SMITH

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love an...
TASHA SMITH

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, wr...
TASHA SMITH

I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they...
TASHA SMITH

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
SAMANTHA SMITH

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
SAMANTHA SMITH

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
SAMANTHA SMITH

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
SAMANTHA SMITH

Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
SAMANTHA SMITH

Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
SAMANTHA SMITH

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
SAMANTHA SMITH

The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a...
SAM SMITH

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
SAM SMITH

Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it my...
SAM SMITH

I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys&...
SAM SMITH

Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.
SAM SMITH

I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a ...
SAM SMITH

I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
SAM SMITH

It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
SAM SMITH

As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
SAM SMITH

I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, an...
SAM SMITH

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained ...
SAM SMITH

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of do...
SAM SMITH

'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we&...
SAM SMITH

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
SAM SMITH

Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-ni...
SAM SMITH

It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
SAM SMITH

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life...
SAM SMITH

I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to...
SAM SMITH

I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'T...
SAM SMITH

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so ...
SAM SMITH

My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and t...
SAM SMITH

I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
SAM SMITH

My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'...
SAM SMITH

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
LIZ SMITH

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be ...
JACLYN SMITH

I have had to learn about saying no.
JACLYN SMITH

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
JACLYN SMITH

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
JACLYN SMITH

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a p...
JACLYN SMITH

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
JACLYN SMITH

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog...
JACLYN SMITH

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
JACLYN SMITH

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still...
JACLYN SMITH

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
JACLYN SMITH

I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my...
JACLYN SMITH

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
JACLYN SMITH

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
JACLYN SMITH

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help ke...
JACLYN SMITH

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or...
JACLYN SMITH

When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so...
JACLYN SMITH

I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
JACLYN SMITH

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it th...
JACLYN SMITH

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
JACLYN SMITH

I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just ...
JACLYN SMITH

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
JACLYN SMITH

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I...
JACLYN SMITH

Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, ...
JACLYN SMITH

It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us....
JACLYN SMITH

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
JACLYN SMITH

I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH

Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH

You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca...
PATTI SMITH

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as try...
WILL SMITH

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran...
WILBUR SMITH

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping...
WILL SMITH

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane o...
WILL SMITH

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
OZZIE SMITH

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
OZZIE SMITH

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean...
OZZIE SMITH

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.
OZZIE SMITH

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us t...
RUSSELL SMITH

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you'...
LARRY SMITH

Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,...
LARRY SMITH

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It...
LARRY SMITH

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
KATE SMITH

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But th...
KATE SMITH

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
KATE SMITH

It's up to the audience. It always has been.
KATE SMITH

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middl...
KATE SMITH

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so lab...
KATE SMITH

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or ot...
KATE SMITH

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form o...
KATE SMITH

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at b...
KATE SMITH

I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
KATE SMITH

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would ta...
KATE SMITH

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached the...
KATE SMITH

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what....
KATE SMITH

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can ...
KATE SMITH

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances t...
KATE SMITH

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
KATE SMITH

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is...
KATE SMITH

This nation loves singing and loves acting.
KATE SMITH

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had s...
KATE SMITH

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
KATE SMITH

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
KATE SMITH

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and famil...
KATE SMITH

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
KATE SMITH

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do ...
NATHANIEL SMITH

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

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As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

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