Voting Quotes - Page 2

• The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

  Will Rogers

  Memories, Office, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Thinking, Political, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.304, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

  Noah Webster

  Character, Men, Office

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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• Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

  Hillary Clinton

  Integrity, House, Democracy

  "Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know". Book by the American Conservative Union (p. 71), September 30, 2005.

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

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, President

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011

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• If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

  Coretta Scott King

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  New Woman, Volume 16, No. 4, p. 20, April 1986.

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• Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

  Tony Snow

  Taken, Issues, People

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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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• When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Nerd, Election

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• I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

  John Ensign

  Country, Believe, Community

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• You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

  David Barton

  Vote, Duty, Right To Vote

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• But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Usa, People

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Exercise, Men, Faithful

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

  Jeff Miller

  School, People, Giving

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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• When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

  William Paterson

  Law, People, Society

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• If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Government, True Democracy

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• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Memories, Party

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• Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

  Joseph Stalin

  Inspiring, Politics, Vote

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• Voting is a civic sacrament.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Political, Politics, Election Day

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• The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Reform, Instruments

  "The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826".

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