You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.