"If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be..." — William Lloyd Garrison

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.