Famous quotes containing the words state and/or election:
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Well, I am chiefly interested in the renomination, so don’t get disconsolate over that. If we lost the election I shall feel that the party is rejected, whereas if I fail to secure the renomination it will be a personal defeat.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)