Victoria C. Woodhull: “If such be the course events must take, what is the lesson to be gathered by that part of the world’s people who speak…”

How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.

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.