Act General Election

Famous quotes containing the words act, general and/or election:

    “Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    “[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)