On the record
This power is not in the individuals who exercise it, they are simply its servants.
Said by
Victoria C. Woodhull
Source
gutenberg.orgThis power is not in the individuals who exercise it, they are simply its servants.
Woodhull clarifies that those who wield power are merely its agents, not the source of it.
Share
More from Victoria C. Woodhull
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.
It is not sufficient to simply assert that this or that is thus or so.
They must and will attain their journey’s end.
It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.