William Lloyd Garrison: “Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit Of the true-hearted and th' unshackled gone?”

Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.

I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.

I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object.

It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.