Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?