Famous quotes containing the words majority and/or whip:
“The candidate tells us we are the “backbone of the State,” and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain endowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)