Voting Quotes

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

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

A wasted vote is voting for someone that you don't believe in

When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

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.

They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

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.

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

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

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

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

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

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

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.