Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
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Ballot Or The Bullet
Give me liberty or give me death
No truer words have ever been said
Well are you prepared for your very last breath?
Dont you dare start what you cannot finish
So when we face, face the adversary
No longer are we the minority
And when history repeats her hour
The pendulum will swing, swing into power
Though not in vain like our forefathers
Freedom, never had no room for cowards
For in the end, there will be equality
By any means necessary
The ballot or the bullet
The choice is up to you
The ballot or the bullet
Tell me what you gonna do
The sword or the pen
Can be held by the same hand
Whats it gonna take to liberate?
An emancipation, a false proclamation?
All these token words that you legislate
Sound a little bit absurd. hey! and a little too late
When a house is divided, it just will not stand
Once its decided, a line drawn in the sand
Ah! the ballot or the bullet
The choice is up to you
The ballot or the bullet
Tell me what you gonna do
The sword or the pen
Can be held by the same hand
The ballot or the bullet
The choice is up to you
The ballot or the bullet
Tell me what you gonna do
The ballot or the bullet
The choice is up to you
The ballot or the bullet
Tell me what you gonna do
The sword or the pen can be
The sword or the pen can be
The sword or the pen can be
The sword or the pen can be
The sword or the pen can be
Held, held by the same hand!
song performed by by Van Halen
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There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
quote by Bob Schaffer
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With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
quote by John Bright
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Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
quote by Rose Schneiderman
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Certain Inalienable Rights
Once the curtains have all been drawn
Privately the final choice will be made
Chosen by lot and not by ballot
Racism wins in a landslide….
2008 © TS
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We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
quote by Kinky Friedman
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The ballot is stronger than bullets.
quote by Joseph Schumpeter
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
quote by Abraham Lincoln
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
quote by E. Franklin Frazier
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
quote by Benazir Bhutto
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
quote by James Buchanan
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
quote by Sarah Vowell
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One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
quote by Lord Salisbury
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
quote by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Sharpton is not even on the Presidential primary ballot here in Louisiana.
quote by Tony Brown
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If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.
quote by Pete Coors
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That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
quote by Michael Beschloss
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Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
quote by Virginia Foxx
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Men have two ways of righting their wrongs, by force and by the ballot. Both are denied to women, one by nature, the other by man.
quote by Ida A. Harper
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