Fair Election

Famous quotes containing the words fair election, fair and/or election:

“While I believe that with a fair election in the South, our electoral vote would reach two hundred, and that we should have a large popular majority, I am yet anxious, as you are, that in the canvassing of results there should be no taint of dishonesty.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“It is always fair sailing when you escape evil.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)