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)
“[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)