Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Suffrage didn’t mean equal opportunity.”

— Annalee Newitz

“Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom…

— Robert Service

Suffrage is a common right for citizenship

— Victoria Woodhull

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

— Susan B. Anthony

“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

A consensus on realising the goal of universal suffrage is not unattainable if we bear the common good in mind, move a step further,…

— Carrie Lam

Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance…

— Carrie Lam

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

— Victoria Woodhull

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

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of…

— Horace Greeley