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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Votes

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Horace.

If we could but weigh in place of counting votes.

Alexander H. Everett.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Carlyle.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

Lowell.