“It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.”
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It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
Anna Howard Shaw 
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
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If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.
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Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
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