Victoria C. Woodhull: “None are fit to hold position who will sacrifice one iota of their…”

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None are fit to hold position who will sacrifice one iota of their conviction in order to retain it.

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull emphasizes the importance of integrity in leadership, arguing that those who compromise their convictions are unfit for office.

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With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.

And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.

Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.

It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

Victoria C. Woodhull: “None are fit to hold position who will sacrifice one iota of their conviction in order to retain it.”