Victoria C. Woodhull: “All nations contribute to our strength, and by so doing render us not only peculiarly American in character, but…”

A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.

Our money is not measured by Gold—Gold is measured by it.

Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.

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.