The Argument Of The Broken Window Pane

It Always Seems To Me When The Anti-suffrage Members Of The Government Criticise Militancy In Women That It Is Very Like Beasts Of Prey Reproaching The Gentler Animals Who Turn In Desperate Resistance When At The Point Of Death.

Manchester Is A City Which Has Witnessed A Great Many Stirring Episodes, Especially Of A Political Character. Generally Speaking, Its Citizens Have Been Liberal In Their Sentiments, Defenders Of Free Speech And Liberty Of Opinion.

There Is Something That Governments Care For More Than Human Life, And That Is The Security Of Property, And So It Is Through Property That We Shall Strike The Enemy.... Those Of You Who Can Break Windows--break Them. Those Of You Who Can Still Further Attack The Secret Idol Of Property, So As To Make The Government Realize That Property Is As Greatly Endangered By Women's Suffrage As It Was By The Chartists Of Old--do So. And My Last Word Is To The Government: I Incite This Meeting To Rebellion!

The Whole Argument With The Anti-suffragists, Or Even The Critical Suffragist Man, Is This: That You Can Govern Human Beings Without Their Consent.

Governments Have Always Tried To Crush Reform Movements, To Destroy Ideas, To Kill The Thing That Cannot Die. Without Regard To History, Which Shows That No Government Have Ever Succeeded In Doing This, They Go On Trying In The Old, Senseless Way.