Whitelaw Reid: “If you are ever to part with it, wait at least till you have examined it and found out that you have no use for it.”

It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.

Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.

He who has that right will usually respect himself more, be more respected, perform more, and more productive work, and do more to increase the wealth and welfare of the community, than he who has it not.

It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.