Votes should be weighed, not counted

Quote by Friedrich Von Schiller

Topics: Voting Quotes

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain.

Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity...

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity...

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million...

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million...

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it...

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it...

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964