"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Politics as articulated by Victoria Woodhull. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Politics provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.

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"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

— Victoria Woodhull
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"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it."

— Victoria Woodhull
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"I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question."

— Victoria Woodhull
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"Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul."

— Victoria Woodhull
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"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."

— Andrew Jackson
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"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

— Sinclair Lewis
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

— C. S. Lewis
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"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."

— John Morley
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