Victoria C. Woodhull: “Strife and animosity will never accomplish half so much as calmness, reason and persuasion.”

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.

The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.

Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?