Quotes on Vote

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote._x000D_ _x000D_ A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat._x000D_ _x000D_ So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.