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Principle could not, in any event, be less the ruling power than now; nor could money buy more politicians than it does now.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Editor's note · Context
Woodhull argues that principles and money's influence on politicians remain unchanged regardless of political shifts.
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In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.
The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.
Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
It is not sufficient to simply assert that this or that is thus or so.