Abolition Quote by George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for…

— George Washington

“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means…

— Hubertine Auclert

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men

— Walter Lippmann

They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self…

— George Washington

“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman must have the equal right in all affairs of society. No…

— Emma Goldman

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage…

— John C. Calhoun

When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession…

— Clara Zetkin

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that…

— Thomas Jefferson

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

— Rutherford B. Hayes