"The Same Reasoning, which will induce you to admit all Men, who have no Property, to vote, with those who have, for those Laws, which affect the Person will prove that you ought to admit Women and Children: for generally Speaking, Women and Children, have as good Judgment, and as independent Minds as those Men who are wholly destitute of Property: these last being to all Intents and Purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, cloath, and employ them, as Women are upon their Husbands, or Children on their Parents." | Quote by: | John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President |
Source: | John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776, Papers 4:208--12
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s10.html |
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