Victoria C. Woodhull: “Women constitute a majority of the people of this country—they hold vast portions of the nation’s wealth and pay a…”

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.

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.

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?