William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

This lady is not for turning.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. [...] I have a spine made out of titanium.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.