FastSaying

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

AssignedAssumedCivilizationHigherIntelligenceLongManOurOursOutPositionsRelativeResponsibleSensibleThanVoteWantWereWomanWomenWorking

Related Quotes

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves
— Grover Cleveland
GovernmentIntelligenceInterest
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
— Grover Cleveland
BlowBreezeConsideration
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland
BeenBreakingEver
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve
— George William Curtis
CivilizationChristianityWomen
I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
— Byron Dorgan
FeelResponsibleVote