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“We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.”

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Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“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.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself

“I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity.”

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Author:Silvio Berlusconi