Ballots Quotes · Page 3

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

— Lysander Spooner

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

— Lindsey Graham

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

— Tom Fitton

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

— Bristol Palin

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

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

— John McCain

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll…

— Malcolm X

I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We…

— Jill Stein

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and…

— Susan B. Anthony

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't…

— Anonymous

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not…

— Malcolm X

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be…

— Abraham Lincoln

There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records.…

— David Letterman

Our military service members put their lives on the line to protect the rights and freedoms of all Americans - yet many…

— John Cornyn

We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses…

— Jill Stein

It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an…

— Tony Benn

I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours…

— Ellen Goodman

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this…

— Michele Bachmann

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

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did…

— Geraldine Brooks

... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in…

— Malcolm X

We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who…

— Dan Savage

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

— Shimon Peres

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr

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

— Malcolm X

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

— Katsuya Okada

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

— Dalia Mogahed

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

— Cory Doctorow

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

— David Axelrod

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

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

— Laura Kuenssberg

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

— Malcolm X

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln