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Words of Freedom
 The following are selected quotes about free and fair elections: "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - U.S. President John Quincy Adams
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust." - U.S. President Grover Cleveland
"When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them." - American Economist John Kenneth Galbraith
"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be." - American Journalist Sidney J. Harris
"The will of the people and free and fair elections are more powerful than any state machine, notwithstanding its strength and severity… undemocratic regimes cannot stop the realization of the people’s will and the basic rights." - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko |
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