I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

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