If the sphere of government is to be determined upon principle, and it is the true principle for the government to conduct the postal service, to the end that the public welfare be subserved, then the same principle determines that…
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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Government, not understanding its true relations to the people, failed to provide them.
Private enterprise, more sagacious and more perceptive of the actual demands of the age, stepped forward, and, taking advantage of governmental supineness, developed the true greatness of the country.
The time has now come, and the government is in position and understanding, to not only guarantee all needed internal improvements to the public, but also to take charge of those already existing, and to conduct them in the interests of…
They are granted privileges, made by the government to promote the public welfare, and not for the continuous private gain of wealth and power.
Let a limitation be put upon these patented privileges, so that the public good may be still further promoted.
Let the same rule of action that governs this service be applied to telegraphs, railroads and all improvements that are public in their character.
Let the present owners and conductors of them become the servants of the government and the people, instead of remaining, as now, their masters, thus forcing them, by the only possible way, to comply with the interests and demands of the…
Besides, these gradually consolidating interests are becoming too powerful and selfish to longer allow of the government or the people regarding them with indifference.
Unless soon dispossessed of the means of increasing their power and influence, they will become greater than the government, and even dangerous to liberty.
The national banks are powerful enough to feel they can dictate to Congress.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.