Famous quotes containing the words place and/or votes:
“Mr. Jordan: What territory do you cover?
Messenger 7013: It’s a place called New Jersey. And if it could be arranged, sir, I should like very much to be transferred.”
—Seton I. Miller (1902–1974)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)