Election Quotes - Page 5

• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Office, Political, President

  Said in 1983. "The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives". Book edited by Philip West, Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau, p. 105, 1987.

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• If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Hands, Heaven, Covenant

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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• The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever purposes be, which are secret, I am sure His promises are plain. How desperately do rebels argue! "If I am elected I shall be saved, do what I will. If not, I shall be damned, do what I can." Perverse sinner, will you begin where you should end?

  Joseph Alleine

  Doubt, Secret, Promise

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• Do not stand still disputing about your election - but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you; in these busy yourself. Whatever God's purposes may be, I am sure His promises are true. Whatever the decrees of heaven may be, I am sure if I repent and believe I shall be saved.

  Joseph Alleine

  Believe, Heaven, Grace

  "A Sure Guide to Heaven".

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• I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

  Richard Baxter

  Mean, No Excuses, Neglect

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.315

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• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

  Joseph Hall

  Order, Calling, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Containing forty-three sermons”, p.594

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• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, What Matters, Light

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.117

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• This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.

  Anthony Burgess

  Prayer, Curiosity, Way

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• For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mean, Men, Grace

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• A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, May, Forget

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.123

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• Suffrage is the pivotal right.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

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• The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

  Julia Gillard

  Plot Lines, People, Political

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• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Government, Threatening, Behavior

  "Congressmen hit talk show circuit". www.cnn.com.

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• If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Running, Political, Half

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• I didn't have the base I needed to win the election

  Rodney Alexander

  Winning, Needed

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• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Political, Voting

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• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Promise, May

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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• I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

  Mitt Romney

  Safety, Needs, Poor

  "“So Rich, So Poor”: Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 23, 2012.

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• Don't vote, it only encourages them.

  Billy Connolly

  Political, Vote, Election Day

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• You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

  Herbert Hoover

  Political, Politics, Sides

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “October 1, 1931, to March 4, 1933”

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• The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Party, Victory, Prejudice

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• The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

  Will Rogers

  Splits, Republican, Democrat

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

  Will Rogers

  Hurt, America, Happens

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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