The Candidate

The Candidate emerges and proves their worth. He calms the seas and rides her waves to power; crashing on the shores of a distant land, the Beast makes war.

“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." - Tom Stoppard

“Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.” — then-Sen. John F. Kennedy at the Gridiron Club dinner in 1958, reading a “telegram” from his father.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” — President John Quincy Adams.

“I never voted for anybody. I always voted against” — comedian W.C. Fields. 

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user” — Commonly attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt

”It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” — Winston Churchill, on the floor of Parliament in November 1947.