Quotes by William Garrison

• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
• Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.
• That which is not just is not law.
• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
• 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.
• You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
• The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
• My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
• Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
• Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
• I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!