Vote Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

— Henry David Thoreau

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country…

— Henry David Thoreau

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they…

— Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to…

— Henry David Thoreau

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their…

— Henry David Thoreau

The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If…

— Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau