Political Quotes

Victoria C. Woodhull: Prussia, meantime, is spending its strength in the vain, though apparently successful, endeavor to consolidate a country…

On the record
Prussia, meantime, is spending its strength in the vain, though apparently successful, endeavor to consolidate a country under absolute control, that is impossible of a people so numerously and diffusively represented, in a country where freedom is the rule.
Said by
Victoria C. Woodhull

Editor's note · Context

She critiques Prussia's attempts to consolidate power in a diverse population, emphasizing the impossibility of absolute control.

Share

More from Victoria C. Woodhull

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

gutenberg.org

At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.

gutenberg.org