At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.