voting Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

41 voting Quotes
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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.”
Andrew Lack Quotes
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
“If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.”
Andrew Lack Quotes
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
Andrew Lack Quotes
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
Andrew Lack Quotes
Source: at Congressional hearing on the networks' election night miscalls
“As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?”
William Marcy Tweed Quotes
Source: The Ballot
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.”
Daniel Webster Quotes
Source: Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson
“Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.”
Robert C. Winthrop Quotes
Source: Yorktown Oration
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
Jerry Garcia Quotes
“The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.”
John F. Kennedy Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.”
Unknown Quotes
“Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.”
Unknown Quotes
“I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.”
Barbara Mikulski Quotes
“Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.”
William L. Shirer Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
Gore Vidal Quotes