And I say, I would rather be the unwilling subject of an absolute monarch than the willing slave of my own ignorance, of which advantage is taken by those who spend their time in endeavoring to prove to me that I am free and in singing the glories of my condition, to hoodwink my reason and to blind my perception.
Here, Woodhull expresses a preference for the clarity of being ruled by a monarch over the deception of believing oneself to be free while being ignorant.
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