Fair Election

Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or election:

    That you are fair or wise is vain,
    Or strong, or rich, or generous;
    You must have also the untaught strain
    That sheds beauty on the rose.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)