Voting Quotes - Page 29

• All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Enemy

  "The Constitution". Baltimore Evening Sun, August 19, 1935.

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• There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Differences, Made, Illegal

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• It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Facts, Criminals

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• It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

  Franklin Pierce

  God, Religious, Humble

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Fate, Winning, Awards

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• President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.

  Jay Leno

  Strong, Believe, Florida

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• The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Fighting, Racism

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

  Juan Williams

  Rich Or Poor, Cities, White

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• I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

  Tom Wolfe

  Thinking, Should, Journalist

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• Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

  Andrew Young

  Believe, August, Law

  "Why Tuesday?" by Amb. Andrew J. Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2010.

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• You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32

  Stephen Elliott

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

  William James

  War, Party, Writing

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Winning, Political, Majority

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.

  Sarah Vowell

  Party, Independent, Thinking

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• Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Historical, Majority, Doe

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  White, House, Vote

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• Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Party, Conservative, Labour

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• Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

  Christine Pelosi

  Responsibility, Civics, Sacraments

  Christine Pelosi (2012). “Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits”, p.125, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Republican

  Sen. Rand Paul's speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

  David Byrne

  One Day, Rich Poor, Joints

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• The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  Herman Cain

  Rights, President, Looks

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

  Tony Campolo

  Young, Democratic

  "Gains for the Democrats Among Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2008.

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