Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1899 |
| AUTHOR: | Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868–1930) |
| QUOTATION: | We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The sayings of Abe Martin, Hubbard’s rural sage, appeared from 1904–1930 in many newspapers. |
| SUBJECTS: | Voters and voting |