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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes: To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
         

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.


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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.



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