I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simply more voters...
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Universal manhood suffrage, by establishing an aristocracy of sex, imposes upon the women of this nation a more absolute and cruel despotism than monarchy; in that, woman finds a political master in her father, husband, brother, son. The aristocracies of the old world are based upon birth, wealth, refinement, education, nobility, brave deeds of chivalry; in this nation, on sex alone; exalting brute force above moral power, vice above virtue, ignorance above education, and the son above the mother who bore him.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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Why do we make one reform topic a hobby and forget all others? Mercy, Prohibition, Vegetarianism, Woman's Suffrage and Peace would make Old Earth a paradise, and yet the majority advocate but one, if any, of these.
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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free s...
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When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in favor of am...
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We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer of marriage fr...
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The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and b...
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In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. If to-day we could prove to Republicans or Democrats tha...
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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... the most important effect of the suffrage is psychological. The permanent consciousness of power for effective action, the knowledge that ...
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