Thus formulated, its practices would ever tend to bring all the people into a comprehension of it, which comprehension is now scarcely existent except in meaningless words, which are dealt from pharisaical pulpits.
Woodhull criticizes the lack of genuine understanding of government among the populace, which is often obscured by rhetoric.
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They must and will attain their journey’s end.
Our Government is a nearer approach to a popular form, and more nearly allied to true freedom and justice than any other in existence.
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.
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