ELECTION

Related Subjects: Choice, Democracy, Government, Majority, Office, Politics, Voting

1. I have fought up to the present fourteen contested elections, which take about a month of one's life apiece. It is melancholy when one reflects upon our brief span, to think that no less than fourteen months of life have been passed in this wearing clatter.—WINSTON CHURCHILL, A Roving Commission
   

2. Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

3. What imports the nomination of this gentleman?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

4. But I do prophesy the election lights on Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet