Thomas Paine said "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected."
1) Paine is arguing that that voting will help the citizen protect the other civil liberties important to a democracy
2) Paine is saying that voting is not really all that important
3) Paine is agreeing that other privileges in a democracy are more important than voting
4) Thomas Edison is saying here that representatives will act for themselves in a democracy