William Lloyd Garrison

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

That which is not just is not law.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is ‘a covenant with death and an agreement with hell’.

I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!