"Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps……" — Jonathan Franzen

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• Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that… — Herman Cain
• Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of… — Dallin H. Oaks
• The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is… — Jon Stewart
• Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true… — Thomas Jefferson
• Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson
• The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution,… — Thomas Jefferson
• Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.… — George Washington
• In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's… — Walter F. Mondale
• If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate,… — Thomas Jefferson
• Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your… — Harvey Mackay

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