"I regard the concurrence of the Senate in the constitutional amendment proposing the extension of the suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity in which we are engaged. I have come to ask you to remove this great national document from the list of pending measures and make it the acknowledged and established law of the land. We have made partners of the women in this war; shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right? This is a people's war and the people's thinking constitutes its atmosphere and morale, not the thinking of legislatures and Governments."

President Woodrow Wilson, address to the United States Senate, Washington D.C., 30 September 1918. Wilson had previously opposed women's suffrage. The Senate failed to pass the amendment by two votes; it passed the following year and was ratified as the 19th Amendment in 1920.