William Lloyd Garrison: “For one press that bears a faithful testimony against Slavery, a score are ready to be prostituted to its service.”

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 do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.

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.

The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.