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

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

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.

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

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.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Forcing something can delay its progress. 

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

The delays, the detours, the disappointments didn’t stop God’s plan.