voting Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

41 voting Quotes
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“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 Quotes
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”
William E. Simon Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.”
Joseph Stalin Quotes
“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans”
Will Rogers Quotes
“Vote early and vote often.”
Unknown Quotes
“Vote early and vote often.”
Unknown Quotes
“One man shall have one vote.”
Unknown Quotes
“One man shall have one vote.”
Unknown Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
Source: Inaugural Address
“I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.”
William S. Gilbert Quotes
Source: H.M.S. Pinafore
“The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Source: A Metrical Essay (l. 83)
“I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Epistles (I, 19, 37)
“He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
“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 Quotes
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble to vote.”
Ambassador Kosh Quotes
Source: a character on the television show "Babylon 5"
“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