Men recognize that this is an imperfect condition of society, made up, as it is of people born free and equal in the eyes of the law, and by it entitled to their chosen path of happiness.
Woodhull reflects on the contradictions within society regarding freedom and equality under the law.
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In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to contest it to the close.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.