William Ewart Gladstone Quote

I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

Debate on the Women's Disabilities Bill, House of Commons, (3 May 1871), published in Parliamentary Debates Vol. 206, Col. 91