Voting Quotes

543 quotes by 390 authors

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a… — Thomas Paine
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions… — Mahatma Gandhi
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. — Jane Bowles
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. — Sydney J. Harris
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for… — Robert Musil
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It — Ken Livingstone
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people — Ron Holland
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are… — Alfred W. Crosby
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its… — John Jay Chapman
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America… — Aberjhani
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio. — John F. Kennedy
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. — Henry David Thoreau
The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the… — Walter Lippmann
I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not… — Tony Blair
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. — Caroline Kennedy
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to… — William Feather

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