The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
- John BrightGenius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- Adrian EdmonsonThe possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
- Alan CurryThe disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
- Alfred Kugal