Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man without a vote is man without protection.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.