Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1898 |
| AUTHOR: | Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842–c. 1914) |
| QUOTATION: | VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Voters and voting |