Elections And Voting Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt, Bill Vaughan, George Bernard Shaw, Abraham Lincoln, Douglas William Jerrold, Jay Leno and many others.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Vote early and vote often.
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
