Quotes on Voting Day

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.

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.

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

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.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

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.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

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

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."