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.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

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