Victoria C. Woodhull: “Labor can exist—though not flourish—without capital; but capital cannot exist entirely divorced from labor.”

Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.

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

I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to contest it to the close.

What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?