Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
514
AUTHOR:
Walt Whitman (181992)
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).