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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. -- Richard Flanagan
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. -- C. L. R. James
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. -- Delphine de Girardin
We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response. -- Chiang Kai-shek
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men. -- Clara Zetkin
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
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' -- Ernestine Rose
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. -- Ida B. Wells
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. -- Salmon P. Chase
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage. -- Michel Onfray
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France. -- Francois Hollande
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust. -- Donald Tsang
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. -- Otto von Bismarck
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule 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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