“I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat…” — 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.