Quotes of Voting - somelinesforyou

“ If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ”

- Unknown

“ Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ 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 biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy. ”

- William Proxmire

“ Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ”

- Bernard Levin

“ Voting is a civic sacrament. ”

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

“ Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ”

- James Bovard

“ I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ”

- Barbara Mikulski

“ Voting is a civic sacrament. ”

- Theodore Hesburgh

“ The ballot is stronger than the bullet. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Our elections are free — it's in the results where eventually we pay. ”

- Bill Stern

“ One man shall have one vote. ”

- Unknown

“ I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. ”

- Unknown

“ I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. ”

- Malcolm X

“ The chief difficulty of cutting down the expenses of government is that so many of the expenses can vote. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The drawback in voting for the man of your choice is that he is seldom a candidate. ”

- Evan Esar

“ There ain't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Our democracy was created by men who fought for the right to vote so that their descendants could exercise their right not to vote. ”

- Evan Esar

“ What this country needs is a Congress capable of voting more intelligently than the voters who elect it. ”

- Evan Esar

“ At election time, we see politicians posturing as if they were in the center, because the center really determines the outcome of American elections,... Washington Unwrapped. ”

- Richard Darman
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