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.

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

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

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

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

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.