Votes/culture

Famous quotes containing the words votes and/or culture:

“If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)