Election Quotes

• Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, Might, Pay

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• Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

  John Owen

  God, Christian, Jesus

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.235

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• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Witty, Thinking, Political

  "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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  People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Morning, Clever, War

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• There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next day: it's the same political landscape that you saw during the Civil War - nothing much has changed except the party names.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Party, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

  Cal Thomas

  Hate, Objectivity, People

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• If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Party, Government, Two

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Freedom, Humorous

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• Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Freedom, Men, People

  Nods and Becks (1944) SeeW. C. Fields 21

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• We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Winning, Men

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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Reflection, Political Will

  "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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• In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

  Kisan Baburao Hazare

  Use, Vote, Select

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• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Voting, Nerd

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• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Failure, Character

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

  Claude Pepper

  Country, Thinking, United States

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• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Auctions, Politics

  "Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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• If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Being Thankful, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.26, University Press of Kentucky

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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  It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

  Power, Men, People

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• Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Caring

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• If the elect could perish, then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to his father, because God the father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever he elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. Now should not this be accomplished, Christ would be unfaithful to his father. John 6.39.

  Christopher Love

  Jesus, Father, Heaven

  "A Treatise of Effectual Calling and Election: In XVI. Sermons, on 2 Peter 1.10". Book by Christopher Love, 1655.

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• Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Lying, Remnants, Despise

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• Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void.

  Thomas Adams

  Believe, Cities, Rivers

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• I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Daddy, Wire, Politics

  Remarks at Gridiron Dinner,Washington, D.C., 15 Mar. 1958.

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