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casting vote
«It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
cast, casting vote, election, votes
«Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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«Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
applause, approval, bronze, bronzed, casting vote, effigy, presents, self-satisfied, stand for, stand in, stare, The Crowd, the market
«The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Politics,
Voting
| Keywords:
casting vote, election, votes
«FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell.She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell.And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell.For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. --Blary O'Gary»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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