To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Independence is happiness.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth