Suffrage Quotes - Page 7

• The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Sovereign, Supreme

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• It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Animal, Government, Justice

  "My Own Story: Top Biography".

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• In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

  Fred Reed

  School, Civilization, Ideas

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Single, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

  H. L. Mencken

  Encouragement, Birth Rate, Democracy

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• To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Class, People, Woman Suffrage

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• No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Education, School, College

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• ... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Rights, Doe, Use

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

  H. L. Mencken

  Voting, Democracy, Doctrine

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• Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Powerful, Winning, Stronger

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• If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

  Jan Smuts

  Years, Would Be, Given

  Statement at the Imperial Conference, 1921.

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• ... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

  Catharine Beecher

  Intelligent, Innocence And Experience, Tools

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• I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Integrity, Night, United States

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• ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Feminist, Feminism, Reform

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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