Such a government would be a strong government indeed, but one in which its composing members of States and the composing members of individuals would have the utmost extent of freedom that the interests of the whole would admit.
Woodhull advocates for a strong government that maximizes individual freedoms within the collective interest.
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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.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
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?
Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.