Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
