Famous quotes containing the words election, declared and/or void:
“Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
—Westbrook Pegler (18941969)
“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our time as best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)