Voting Quotes - Page 9

• Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Usa, America, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

  William Penn

  Men, Giving, Clock

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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• Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

  Jerry Garcia

  Two, Evil, Choices

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• We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

  John Adams

  Hands, Two, Important

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.437

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• Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Slavery, Politics

  "Wise Words and Quotes". Book by Vernon K. McLellan (p.281), 2000.

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

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Political Wisdom, Politics

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

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• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Two, Differences

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• Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

  Naomi Klein

  Political, Democracy, Dignity

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• Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

  Gerald Celente

  Two, Evil, Enslavement

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• Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Hands, Office

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• The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Billionaire

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you. And the evidence is clear. Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, towns and cities, for 30 years, and just take a look at them. The evidence is right there. We got the strong, silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the Regime used to sell Obamacare. The pajama kid! The nerd in his pajamas.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Party, Kids

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.

  Russell Baker

  Mother, Years, Class

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• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  Gary Hamel

  Office, Political, Democracy

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• The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

  James A. Garfield

  Character, People, American Voters

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  "The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin’s Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings". Book by Kin Hubbard, October 1, 1984.

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• I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, President, Vices

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• New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Sex, Gay

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale

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• When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing up those rooms because voting didn't change those situations for them. That was their livelihood. There's revolution going on all over the world because they actually can't have a voice.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Complaining, World

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

  Alan Keyes

  Opportunity, People, Judging

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• The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

  James Bovard

  Rights, People, Panacea

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• Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

  M. E. Lazarus

  Office, Vote, Instruments

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• The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

  Learned Hand

  Confusion, Apathy, Voters

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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