Political Quotes

Victoria C. Woodhull: “We do not believe in anything being held so sacred as not to be submitted to a complete analysis, so that it may be…”

On the record
We do not believe in anything being held so sacred as not to be submitted to a complete analysis, so that it may be determined just what there is good, and what there is which can be bettered.
Said by
Victoria C. Woodhull

Editor's note · Context

She emphasizes the importance of analyzing all aspects of governance to distinguish between what is good and what can be improved.

Share

More from Victoria C. Woodhull

If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?

gutenberg.org

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…

gutenberg.org

Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?

gutenberg.org

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…

gutenberg.org