Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

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.

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

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.