Secret Ballot Voting

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

“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

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