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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
Sep 17, 2025
Vote early and vote often.
Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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