Secret Ballot Voting

Famous quotes containing the words secret, ballot and/or voting:

“It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)

“We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice—that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men—because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)