Victoria C. Woodhull: “Shall rule and State, then, in their old ways stand, Denying Progress her supreme demand?”

The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.

Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.

A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.

How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?