vote quotes

One man shall have one vote.

-Cartwright,John
  The People's Barrier Against Undue Influence, ch.1, 'Principles, maxims, and primary rules of politics'.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

-Gergen, David Richmond
  In US News &  World Report,10 May.

The elitist attitude is basically suspicious of, and hostile to, themarket precisely becausethemarket issovulgarly democraticöone dollar, one vote.

-Krasna, Norman
  Two Cheers for Capitalism, ch.2.

I cast only one voteöfor Jack. It is a rare thing to be able to vote for one's husband for President and I didn't want to dilute it by voting for anyone else.

-Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier
On the1960 elections. Quoted in  Arthur M Schlesinger  Jr A  Thousand Days (1965).

How long you women have been trying for the vote.For my part, I mean to get it.

-Pankhurst, Christabel
c.1890  Childhood remark, quoted by her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, in My Own Story (1914), ch.2.

What istheuse offighting for thevoteif we donot havea country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved womento enduretorture inprison for thenational good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

-Pankhurst, Emmeline ne¤  e  Goulden
  Declaring a truce on suffragette activities for the duration of WorldWar I,10 Aug.

Idon'tthink therewasevera piece of music thatchanged a man's decision on how to vote.

-Schnabel, Artur
My Life and Music.

In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.

-Swift,Jonathan
  'Verses on the Upright Judge'.

   Fifty per cent of them won't vote and the other half doesn't read newspapers. I hope it's the same.

-Vidal, Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr
  In Emmy, May.

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

-Waterhouse, Keith Spencer
  On MargaretThatcher, attributed.

No writer before the middle of the19th century wrote about the working classes other thanasgrotesques oras pastoral decorations. Then when they were given the vote certain writers started to suck up to them.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  'TheArt of Fiction XXX: EvelynWaugh', in The Paris Review, no.8, Summer/Fall.

The primordial argument against giving woman the vote is that that vote would not represent physical force.

-Wright, SirAlmroth Edward
  The Unexpurgated Case againstWoman Suffrage, pt.2.

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