Famous quotes containing the words voting and/or power:
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“... the most important effect of the suffrage is psychological. The permanent consciousness of power for effective action, the knowledge that their own thoughts have an equal chance with those of any other person ... this is what has always rendered the men of a free state so energetic, so acutely intelligent, so powerful.”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)