Famous quotes containing the words free and/or election:
“I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes—castes—is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)