I claim no right that I am not willing to give to my wife and daughters, and to the wives and daughters of other men.
We shall never have a generation of great men until we have a generation of great women. I do not regard ignorance as the foundation of virtue, or uselessness as one of the requisites of a lady.
I am a believer in equal rights. Those who are amenable to the laws should have a voice in making the laws. In every department where woman has had an equal opportunity with man, she has shown that she has equal capacity.
We shall never have a generation of great men until we have a generation of great women. I do not regard ignorance as the foundation of virtue, or uselessness as one of the requisites of a lady.
I am a believer in equal rights. Those who are amenable to the laws should have a voice in making the laws. In every department where woman has had an equal opportunity with man, she has shown that she has equal capacity.
(At a women’s suffrage meeting in Washington DC in 1880)
If any woman wants to vote, I am too much of a gentleman to say she shall not.
(When Susan B. Anthony lectured for women’s suffrage in Peoria, it was Ingersoll who defended her from hecklers.
