Elections

(38 votes)   The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(212 votes)   Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams
1881-1960, American Journalist, Humorist

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(153 votes)   The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(124 votes)   There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(115 votes)   I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(115 votes)   In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(95 votes)   An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(90 votes)   The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

St. Gregory The Great
c. 540-604, Italian Pope

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(85 votes)   If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(84 votes)   I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(81 votes)   An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(80 votes)   The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(73 votes)   You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

Gerald Barzan

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(72 votes)   Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(69 votes)   anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

June Jordan
1939-, American Poet, Civil Rights Activist

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