Individual enterprise, especially among Americans, has produced the most wonderful results.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “Individual enterprise, especially among Americans, has produced the most wonderful results.”
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Woodhull recognizes the significant achievements resulting from individual initiative in America.
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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.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
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.