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On the contrary, many enterprises which have proved equally beneficial to the country have ruined those who projected them.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull points out that some ventures that benefited society ultimately harmed their initiators.
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Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.
If he will not labor, society should compel him.
It is not sufficient to simply assert that this or that is thus or so.