"William Curtis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or in re-affirmation of principles so long contended for, met no popular response. Even in Boston, Wendell Phillips needed the protection of the police in returning to his home after one of his eloquent and defiant harangues, and George William Curtis was advised by the Republican mayor of Philadelphia that his appearance as a lecturer in that city would be extremely unwise. He had been engaged to speak on "The Policy of Honesty." But so great had been the change in popular feeling in a ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... and I have never heard or read of any satisfactory reason for excluding them from the ballot-box; I have no more doubt of their ameliorating influence upon politics than I have of the influence they exert everywhere else.—[GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various |
