Voting Ages

Famous quotes containing the words voting and/or ages:

    “All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Next time, to tarry,
    While the Ages steal—
    Slow tramp the Centuries,
    And the Cycles wheel!”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)