As a rule, to which, however, there a few most honorable exceptions, there are all small men with ideas no more comprehensive than the districts or States they represent, and who make the purposes of personal gain the mainspring of all their actions.
Woodhull critiques contemporary politicians as lacking vision and driven by personal gain.
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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.
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.
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.