Victoria C. Woodhull: “People are always placed upon the side of force and compulsion—never upon that of personal rectitude and honor.”

How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?

To begin a work right, is to have it half accomplished; and most powerfully does this apply in the matter of determining who shall be your representatives.

To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.

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