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  • The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

    Powerful   Men  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on
  • Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  • Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

    FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011
  • Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

    Voting  
  • The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

    Voting  
    The New York Times, November 11, 1963.
  • Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

    In Meyer Berger New York (1960)
  • An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

    Life   Peace  
  • Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

    Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
  • A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

  • It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

    Jumpers act 1 (1972) See Nast 1; Somoza 1
  • Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.538, Best Books on
  • Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

    "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".
  • Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

    Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.
  • An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

    George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.176, 1st World Publishing
  • A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

    "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.
  • The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

    Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.
  • There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

    "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.
  • Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

    Voting  
    The New York Times, p. 36, December 29, 1969.
  • The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

    Speech, 19 May 1856
  • Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  • Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

    Voting  
    "Wise Words and Quotes". Book by Vernon K. McLellan (p.281), 2000.
  • Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

    "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.
  • The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

    Witty  
    Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks
  • Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  • If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

    Voting  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

    Country  
  • Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.304, Harvard University Press
  • American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  • I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

    Voting  
    H.M.S. Pinafore act 1 (1878)
  • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

    "The State and Revolution". Chapter 5, www.marxists.org. 1917.
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