Ballot Measure

Famous quotes containing the words ballot and/or measure:

    “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)