The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
William WilberforceYou may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
William WilberforceThis perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
William WilberforceWhat should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
William WilberforceTo the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.
William Wilberforce