Popular Vote Swing

Famous quotes containing the words popular, vote and/or swing:

    It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
    —Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)

    ... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it for her own self-respect and to compel man’s respect for her.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    The swing of milk was tufted in the pap....
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)