That all are born free is a proposition that no one can question; but this freedom is general to all, and does not refer to the individual, nor entitle him or her to push his freedom so as to encroach upon the same freedom guaranteed to every other individual.
Woodhull discusses the concept of freedom as a collective right rather than individual entitlement.
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The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
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At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.