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Own Quotes by William Wilberforce
- So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences…
- If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of…
- The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
- I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our…
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