The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.