Victoria C. Woodhull: “It will be replaced in the vocabulary of the future by the more perfect one—Knowledge, Wisdom and Justice.”

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…

As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.

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!