Logo
Quote by Gerrit Smith
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. – Gerrit Smith

Other quotes by Gerrit Smith

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. – Gerrit Smith

Category:
respect
Author
Gerrit Smith
Read Quote

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 oclock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. – Gerrit Smith

Category:
Morning
Author
Gerrit Smith
Read Quote

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

Category:
Peace
Author
Gerrit Smith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Marriage
category

It wont take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. – Mary Cheney

Category:
Marriage

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. – Henrik Ibsen

Category:
Marriage

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, youre sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell

Category:
Marriage

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, Ill arrange a marriage for you at 18, but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. – Indra Nooyi

Category:
Marriage

Random Quotes

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. – Lyman Beecher

Category:
Argument & Debate

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. – Orison Swett Marden

Category:
Time

Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Happiness

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husbands bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. – Pearl S. Buck

Category:
power