Victoria C. Woodhull: “The people in this Republic who confer sovereignty are its citizens: in a monarchy the people are the subjects of…”

I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to contest it to the close.

Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?

And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.

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.