It is always viewed from the standpoint of the wealthy, and usually by the wealthy or by those in their direct interests.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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The question of money has never been considered philosophically, nor with due regard to the common interests of humanity.
There may be a great deal of money in a country and still be very little general prosperity with the common people.
It does not mean vast sums of gold in the hands of a few of the inhabitants of the country, while the great majority struggle month after month for the absolute necessities of life.
Happiness is very closely allied to prosperity, and general prosperity in a country can never obtain unless it is under a sound financial system.
A very great deal more of the people’s common happiness depends upon money than even political economists generally suppose.
The gravest of all questions of political economy is that of a country’s money.
The capability to do this would instantly place us at the head of nations, and financially to stand thus, is to complete the measure of our greatness.
Why shall we not show the nations how to make the best use of their means, and give them a system that will do more for them than any system that has yet been tried, and by so doing also meet our own needs?
The world—or that part of it which has grown to appreciate our kind of freedom—involuntarily turns its eyes to us for patterns of all things that a people during a change of government require.
Why should we not be the nation to give to the world a reformed currency?
As a nation we are or can be, were it necessary, independent of the world, and are the first and best representative of a republican form of government.