Quotes of Franchise - somelinesforyou

“ The ballot is stronger than the bullet. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ”

- Unknown

“ Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ”

- Bernard Levin

“ Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. ”

- Unknown

“ The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. ”

- Malcolm X

“ I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. ”

- Unknown

“ It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ One man shall have one vote. ”

- Unknown

“ We had a great season, a franchise record. It's all gone now. ”

- Tim Duncan

“ We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better. ”

- Phil Jackson

“ That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money. ”

- John Randolph

“ I think we got away from, I think we got a lot away from being the fiscal conservative, individuals rights, less government, and I think we have to re-establish that franchise. ”

- Bob Smith

“ A man without a vote... is like a man without a hand. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Do I think will go forward? Yes I do. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that. ”

- Alan Keyes

“ Nasdaq is voting with their capital. ”

- James Connolly

“ Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ We've had to be creative to get on the ballot. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. ”

- Ken Livingstone

“ Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises. ”

- Robert Iger

“ To this end, the Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated on April 13, 1846, with a franchise permitting the construction of a railroad across the State from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. ”

- John Moody

“ Voting is a civic sacrament. ”

- Theodore Hesburgh

“ Voting is a civic sacrament. ”

- Theodore Hesburgh

“ If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ”

- James Bovard

“ There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson
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