Victoria C. Woodhull: “These persons have trespassed upon the public welfare and it must be protected from further trespass.”

Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.

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.

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.