Victoria C. Woodhull: “Material production precedes all other kinds of acquirement.”

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

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.

Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.

In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.