Ballot Paper System

Famous quotes containing the words ballot, paper and/or system:

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

“Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No, the world must be peopled.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)