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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw
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Most historians consider ladies teas to be the foundation of what would eventually become the suffrage rights legislation.

Jan Knowles
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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

Noah Webster
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We struggle for freedom every day of our lives. From our founding fathers to the Civil War through the suffrage movement, the American civil rights movement and today with the Patriot Act. Frankly, it's a story we have to keep telling to each other.

Christian W. Overland
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There is no reason to support such a proposal when the system of appointed members still exists and no concrete timetable has been laid down by the government on how to achieve universal suffrage.

Margaret Ng
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby
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The Suffrage Law would need to be adapted to the 1999 Constitution to provide for some defense of minority's representation.

Jorge Rodriguez
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In order to reach universal suffrage, we have to build trust.

Donald Tsang
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I am pleased to solemnly announce that I have taken a decision to submit to the suffrage of my compatriots a project for national recovery.

Idrissa Seck
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Edmund Barton
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