There is one thing no people have ever done that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.