Victoria C. Woodhull: “You should know by this time that “the purity of the ballot box” is simply a “play upon words,” and that elections are…”

Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.

Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.

The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.

Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?