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

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

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.

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.