Ballot Quotes
135 Ballot quotes by 107 unique authors
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Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the…
— Unknown Author
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone,…
— Walter Bagehot
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People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures…
— Wayne Pacelle
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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
— Avi Rubin
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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price…
— Malcolm X
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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
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is…
— Charley Reese
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The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak,…
— Christine Pelosi
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We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
— Larry McDonald
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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession…
— Ernestine Rose
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you…
— Frederick Douglass
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The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
— John Monash
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a…
— Maggie Gallagher
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties…
— Lysander Spooner
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Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they…
— Rose Schneiderman
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box…
— Wayne Pacelle
Who Wrote These Ballot Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 135 Ballot Quotes, led by these top contributors: