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Vote Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
- REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
- A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
- WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be…
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