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“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.”
Tom Stoppard quotes (British Playwright, b.1937)

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“In times of stress and strain, people will vote”

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“Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age”
Marshall McLuhan quotes (Canadian communications theorist Educator, Writer and Social Reformer, 1911-1980)
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“We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital”
Horace Mann quotes (US educator, the first great American advocate of public education, 1796-1859)
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“We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate”
Kin Hubbard quotes (American Humorist and Writer, 1868-1930)
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“Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”
Robert Byrne quotes (American Author and billiards champion player, Writer of 'Standard Book of Pool and Billiards'. b.1930)
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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
Robert M. Hutchins quotes (American Educator and Writer, active in forming the Committee to Frame a World Constitution (1945), led the Commission on Freedom of the Press (1946), and vigorously defended academic freedom, opposing faculty loyalty oaths in the 1950s. 1899-1977)
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“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan quotes (American Journalist, Critic, Essayist and Editor, 1882-1958)
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