it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

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

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

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.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

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