Quotes on Elections And Voting

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

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

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

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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

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

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."