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Vote early and vote often.
Author:
Source: None
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One man shall have one vote.
Author:
Source: None
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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.
Author:
Source: None
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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.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Inaugural Address
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I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.
Author: William S. Gilbert
Source: H.M.S. Pinafore
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The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand,
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: A Metrical Essay (l. 83)
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I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
[Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 19, 37)
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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.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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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.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble
to vote.
Author: Ambassador Kosh
Source: a character on the television show "Babylon 5"
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Millions of voites are thrown out in election after election in
this country. Now that's a story.
Author: Andrew Lack
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably
tell you.
Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Author: Andrew Lack
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
Author: Andrew Lack
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity has made them good.
Author: Andrew Lack
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Author: Andrew Lack
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
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As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
Author: William Marcy Tweed
Source: The Ballot
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and
heart to this vote.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson
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Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half
completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands
are left without education.
Author: Robert C. Winthrop
Source: Yorktown Oration
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Author: Jerry Garcia
Source: None
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The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Source: None
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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.
Author: William Proxmire
Source: None
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Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
Author: Barbara Mikulski
Source: None
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Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Author: William L. Shirer
Source: None
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Author: Gore Vidal
Source: None
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