Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

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.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

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.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.