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As quoted in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings by Miriam Schnier (1972)Course of Popular Lectures (1829)Views of Society and Manners in America (1821)

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It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

Frances Wright

Frances Wright (1795–1852), Scottish author and speaker; relocated to America. Views of Society and Manners in America, January 1820 entry (1821).

The Scotswoman had been travelling in the United States since September 1818.

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