All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. (Henry David Thoreau)

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Henry David Thoreau

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