William Lloyd Garrison

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.