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The political, national or personal advantages which are supposed to flow from restraints upon commerce, have nothing to do with the question of general reform.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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This quote asserts that perceived advantages of commerce restrictions are irrelevant to the broader need for reform.
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To begin a work right, is to have it half accomplished; and most powerfully does this apply in the matter of determining who shall be your representatives.
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.
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.
It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.