When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
Paul HarveyRead
One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.
Interpretation
Each individual's vote holds significant power in determining the outcome of elections.
This quote by Paul Harvey emphasizes the weight that a single vote can carry in electoral processes. It highlights historical instances where close elections could have had different outcomes with just one more vote, thereby reinforcing the importance of civic participation and personal agency in shaping democracy.
In practice
In a discussion on why voting is important, this quote can be used to emphasize individual responsibility.
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?
We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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