Voting Quotes - Page 6

• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Law, Important

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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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• I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

  Ken Kesey

  Insane, Yeah, Wells

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• If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Country, America

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

  John M. McHugh

  Years, People, Lasts

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• I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

  Tim Scott

  Running, Believe, Moving

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• The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Men, Matter

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• There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Ohio, Cities

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• The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Safety, Ark

  Thomas Jefferson (1955). “Political Writings: Representative Selections”

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

  Grover Cleveland

  Exercise, Presidential, Voters

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Tickets, United States

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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• I am sure that every one of my colleagues "Democrat, Republican, and Independent" agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  Barbara Boxer

  Independent, Vote, Republican

  Barbara Boxer's statement on her objection to the certification of Ohio's electoral votes, January 6, 2005.

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• You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Guy, Littles

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

  Samuel Adams

  Character, Patriotic, Men

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• Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Can Do, You Can Do It

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.

  Jesse Ventura

  Horse, Heart, Thinking

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• I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

  2 Chainz

  Adults, Felons, Vote

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

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• Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

  Matthias B. Tallmadge

  Character, Office, Looks

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• Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, News, Pieces

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.69, Penguin

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• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Thinking

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• I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Law, Good Man

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• When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

  John Calvin

  God, Giving, Judging

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• The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, People, Feelings

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don’t put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It’s something you’re supposed to do. Now, you can’t go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That’s stupid.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Glowing, Essentials

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September, 2004.

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