We have seen how great a tyranny that is which arises from monopolizing the land.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “We have seen how great a tyranny that is which arises from monopolizing the land.”
Editor's note · Context
This quote addresses the tyranny that arises from land monopolization, a key issue in Woodhull's advocacy.
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That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.
Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
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.