As a rule, to which, however, there a few most honorable exceptions, there are all small men with ideas no more comprehensive than the districts or States they represent, and who make the purposes of personal gain the mainspring of all their actions.
Woodhull critiques contemporary politicians as lacking vision and driven by personal gain.
Share
More from Victoria C. Woodhull
What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?
Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.
A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.