Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

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

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.