elect quotes

The elect, the elected†theycome here bright as dimes, and die dishevelled and soft.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'July in Washington'.

It is not so much who you elect, it's who you throw out.

-Thompson,James R
  On the campaign to clean up government. In the Chicago Tribune, 26 Jul.

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