Said after the People's Vote campaign, of which Lucas is part, asked Jeremy Corbyn to call a vote of no confidence in the Conservative government. Brexit: People's Vote campaign urges Corbyn to call no-confidence vote https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46524696 BBC News (11 December 2018) <br class="br">2018
Ben Shapiro (1984) American journalist and attorney
Twitter https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/133918830073352192, , quoted in * 2019-08-22<br><br>What Republicans Really Mean When They Call Jews Disloyal<br><br>Jordan Weissman<br><br>Slate<br><br>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/what-republicans-really-mean-when-they-call-jews-disloyal.html <br class="br">2011
Anne Applebaum (1964) journalist
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/z4AdQy3VCmgC?hl=en (October 30, 2012).
“Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.”
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
Interview with GamePro magazine (8 April 2003)
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
Shock and Awe (2003)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
There is no evidence that Franklin ever actually said or wrote this, but it's remarkably similar a quote often attributed, without proper sourcing, to Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexander Fraser Tytler:
:A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.
Misattributed
“A people divided over the right to vote can never build a Nation united.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Special message to Congress on the right to vote (1965)
“Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 61
“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Variant: Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
Source: Brexit: PM under fire over new Brexit plan https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48360456 BBC News (22 May 2019)
Tom Watson (Labour politician) (1967) British politician
Labour party conference: Corbyn plays down divisions amid aide's exit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49786833 BBC News (22 September 2019) <br class="br">2019
