Votes should be weighed not counted.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.''

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.