Million Votes

Famous quotes containing the words million and/or votes:

    “Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.”
    —Stanley Rudin. The New York Times (August 22, 1963)

    “Yet do not I invite
    The wrinkled shopman to my sounding woods,
    Nor bid the unwilling senator
    Ask votes of thrushes in the solitudes.
    Every one to his chosen work.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)