“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.”

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Just as the world war is no white man’s war, but every man’s war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman’s struggle, but every woman’s struggle.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

When you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad — well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.