Elections Quotes
![Gerard Manley Hopkins quote: "ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorld ear, Pipe..."](/pic/379115/600x316/quotation-gerard-manley-hopkins-elected-silence-sing-to-meand-beat-upon.jpg)
![Gerald F. Lieberman quote: "Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that..."](/pic/88190/600x316/quotation-gerald-f-lieberman-elections-are-held-to-delude-the-populace.jpg)
![Franklin P. Adams quote: "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people..."](/pic/1099/600x316/quotation-franklin-p-adams-elections-are-won-by-men-and-women-chiefly.jpg)
The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a...
Terry Prachett