Elections in Egypt/kingdom of Egypt 1922-1953

Famous quotes containing the words elections, egypt and/or kingdom:

    “In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “How we dwelt in two worlds
    the daughters and the mothers
    in the kingdom of the sons.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)