Quotes and Sayings About Voting
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Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
-- Aaron Klein -
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
-- Alan Kay -
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
-- Alexander HamiltonSource : Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.105, Rowman & Littlefield
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A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled...
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.
-- Alma Adams -
Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
-- Alveda King -
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.
-- Andrew Napolitano -
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
-- Andrew Young -
But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!
-- Andy Andrews -
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
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Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
-- Arlen Specter -
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
-- Avi RubinSource : "Critics Concerned Electronic Voting Not Secure". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 27, 2006.
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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
-- Avi RubinSource : "Critics Concerned Electronic Voting Not Secure". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 27, 2006.
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I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
-- Barbara BoxerSource : Barbara Boxer's statement on her objection to the certification of Ohio's electoral votes, January 6, 2005.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
-- Barbara Boxer -
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
-- Bart StupakSource : "Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak: Health Care Hero or Villain?". On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 05, 2010.
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
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Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
-- Benjamin Tucker -
I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.
-- Beth BroderickSource : "Hate Takes A Holiday" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2008.
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Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.
-- Bill Bonner -
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
-- Bill Moyers -
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
-- Birch Bayh -
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
-- Bob Barr