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?

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.