To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .