Victoria C. Woodhull: “The people will then no longer elect representatives to make laws by which they must be bound whether they approve or…”

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?

The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.

Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.

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.