Victoria C. Woodhull: “Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?”

If the angel in the bush were possible, why may not angels manifest the wisdom, power, and justice of God in our legislative halls?

Where are all the great of the past; its orators, philosophers and statesmen; Confucius, Zoroaster, Moses, David, Solomon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Bonaparte, Washington, and many others, of all nations and climes, to whom history…

Who will dare to assert that they are not even now seeking another Moses to lead “His people” up out of Egypt?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!