| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 514 |
| AUTHOR: | Walt Whitman (1819–92) |
| QUOTATION: | I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WALT WHITMAN, “Democratic Vistas,” Collect, in The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, vol. 2, p. 228 (1948). |
| SUBJECTS: | Elections |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Walt Whitman Collection | | |
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