Voting Quotes

543 quotes by 390 authors

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that… — Jesse Ventura
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. — Mark Twain
The job facing American votersâ€¦ in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited… — Aberjhani
He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then… — Jandy Nelson
A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor… — Jim Trelease
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first… — Joel Salatin
Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying. — James Dashner
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and… — James Joyce
But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every… — Andy Andrews
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. — Benjamin Franklin
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that… — Catherynne M. Valente
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded… — Lyndon B. Johnson
States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess… — David Sedaris
Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in… — Maggie Stiefvater
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. — Tom Stoppard
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has… — Robert Graves
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. — Gore Vidal
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public… — Beth Simone Noveck

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