votes quotes

The great questions of our day cannot be solved by speeches and majority votes but by iron and blood.

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  Speech to the Prussian Chamber, 30 Sep. He later altered the concluding words to the more commonly quoted'blood and iron'.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  Orthodoxy, ch.4.

We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.

- Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
  'The SexWar: DisjointedThoughts on Men', in The Clarion, 18 Apr.