Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.