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G. K. Chesterton
“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Ambrose Bierce
“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
G. K. Chesterton
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Theodore Roosevelt
“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
George Bernard Shaw
“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Milton Friedman
“The major disadvantage of the proposed negative income tax is its political implications. It establishes a system under which taxes are imposed on some to pay subsidies to others. And presumably, these others have a vote.” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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