Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. Benjamin Tucker
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. Maria Weston Chapman
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. Thomas Henry Huxley
Superfluous and should be abolished. Joe Higgins
It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused. John Jay