Victoria C. Woodhull: “Without it, the first is powerless, and the last dangerous to those who command and support it.”

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.

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

That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.

The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.