Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
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The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
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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
Henry Louis Mencken
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan Quayle
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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
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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
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the
same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a
public trust.
Steven Grover Cleveland
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I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.
William S. Gilbert
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine,
would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Douglas Jerrold
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I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw
away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on
account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
Douglas Jerrold
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The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble
to vote.
Ambassador Kosh
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Millions of voites are thrown out in election after election in
this country. Now that's a story.
Andrew Lack
Quotes , Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
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