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.
Carrie Chapman CattThe vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
Carrie Chapman CattThere are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
Carrie Chapman CattNo written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman CattService to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
Carrie Chapman Cattit 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.
Carrie Chapman Catt