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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks, It ravishes all senses.

Philip Massinger

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.

William Shakespeare

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.

Lao Tzu

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Kahil Gibran

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Etienne de Grellet

We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.

Kin Hubbard

Vote for the man who promises least--he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard M. Baruch

... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

One man shall have one vote.

The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Andrew Lack

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Andrew Lack

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Robert C. Winthrop

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.

William Proxmire

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

Barbara Mikulski

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her— but alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.

Robert Schuman

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