In speaking of political cowardice and corruption, he says: "Were it not for the thunder and lightning of the Garrisonians to purify the moral atmosphere, we would all sink into perdition together." His love of liberty is thus expressed: I believe in the absolute freedom of every human being so long as the rights of others are left undisturbed.

Conformity too often cuts down our stature and makes us Lilliputians, no longer units but unities.

Help me to stand alone and I will help you to right the universe.

Better, a thousand times better, that societies, friendships even, never were formed, that we all were Robinson Crusoes, than that the terrible tragedy of soul-annihilation through conformity be so conspicuous in the drama of human life.
How many wives do you see who are not acting this tragedy?
How many husbands who do not applaud?
Hence degeneracy after marriage, more directly of the wife than the husband, but too often of both.
As soon as Miss Anthony reached home, the last of November, she began preparing for another winter campaign in the interest of the petitions, and also for a course of lectures to be given in Rochester by the prominent men of the day.

Lucy Stone wrote her at this time: "Your letter full of plans reaches me here.