Convinced Quote by Salmon P. Chase

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

While universal suffrage remains an ideal yet to be attained, if you're lucky enough to be able to vote, don't let that privilege go…

— Chelsea Manning

“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

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they…

— Fred Reed

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

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

— Alice Paul

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic…

— James Madison

I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States…

— Anna Howard Shaw

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

— Jennifer Worth

[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day.…

— Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that.

— Chelsea Manning