Election Quotes

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true cure is in the next election.

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence, of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. I have been doing so because I thought, upon full consideration, that was the proper course for me to take.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?