Victoria C. Woodhull: “Each in turn attempted it and failed, because of the imperfectly developed form of the government they sought to control…”

As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…

If the angel in the bush were possible, why may not angels manifest the wisdom, power, and justice of God in our legislative halls?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!