Victoria C. Woodhull: “Honest nature’s voice shall give The laws to man by which he’ll live.”

It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.

How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.