Frances Wright People Quotations

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.