A British Parliament should attain not only the best ends, but by the wisest means.
Great Britain might abandon her share of this trade, but she could not abolish it.

Parliament was not an assembly of delegates from the powers of Europe, but of a single nation.

It could not therefore suppress the trade; but would eventually aggravate those miseries incident to it, which every enlightened man must acknowledge, and every good man must deplore.

He wished the traffic for ever closed.

But other nations were only waiting for our decision, to seize the part we should leave them.