August
- 2 August: Latvia, Constitutional referendum
- 5 August: Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect)
- 10 August: Bolivia, Recall referendum
- 23 August: Latvia, Pensions law referendum
Read more about this topic: Electoral Calendar 2008
Famous quotes containing the word august:
“If August passes
flowerless,
and the frosts come,
will I have learned to rejoice enough
in the sober wonder of
green healthy leaves?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I dream, therefore I exist.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)