Ballots Quotes · Page 3

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

— Michael Douglas

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

— Frederick Douglass

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

— Abraham Lincoln

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

— Laura Kuenssberg

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

— Harry S. Truman

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

— Malcolm X

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our…

— Florence Luscomb

The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are…

— Chris Hayes

Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg…

— Daniel Tosh

“There must have been a number of ballots marked ‘no,’” he said. “But if there were, they were simply discarded. Only the…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in…

— Audie Cornish

Mail-in ballots are a huge source of potential voter fraud. For instance, ballots mailed to wrong addresses or large residential buildings might…

— Tom Fitton

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and…

— James Russell Lowell

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have…

— Neil Kinnock

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The idea that Hispanics or women or any other group of people think alike, vote alike? That's what Democrats want. They want…

— Rush Limbaugh

Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any…

— N. T. Wright

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have…

— Andrew Young

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting…

— Michael Copps

You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and…

— David Letterman

We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we…

— Jill Stein

There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom…

— Benjamin Tucker

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are…

— George Will

To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan.…

— Bill O'Reilly

The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which…

— Lysander Spooner

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

— Ambrose Bierce

I did not send in my absentee ballots to Alaska. I'm going to be in trouble. Sorry, mom!

— Bristol Palin

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

— John McCain

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

— Shimon Peres

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

— Malcolm X

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

— Malcolm X

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

— David Axelrod

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

— Cory Doctorow

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

— Malcolm X

Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

— Dalia Mogahed

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

— Katsuya Okada