Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Government
  • Part
  • Suffer