Voting Day Quotes:

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

- Solomon

topic: Two, Evil, Lesser Of Two Evils, Lesser Evil, Two Evils

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

- Sharon Salzberg

source: FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 06, 2016

topic: Country, Commitment, Expression, Voting Day

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

- George Jean Nathan

topic: Freedom, Democracy, Citizens, Inspirational Voting, Good Political

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

source: "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

topic: Patriotic, Reflection, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential, Inspirational Voting

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

topic: Powerful, Wall, Men, Inspirational Voting, Lbj

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

topic: Funny, Trust, Freedom, Limited Freedom, Limiting Freedom

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

- Isaac Asimov

source: "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

topic: Ignorance, Mean, Political, Knowledge And Ignorance, Strain

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: People, Voting, Way, Inspirational Voting, Not Voting

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

- H. L. Mencken

source: The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

topic: Heart, White, Land, Ordinary People, Voting And Democracy

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

- Samuel Adams

source: Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

topic: Country, Offering, Voting, Human Society, Executing

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

- Gerald Celente

topic: Two, Evil, Voting, Lesser Evil, Two Evils

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Love And Hate, Darfur

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Wise, Men, Voting, Abolition, Civil Disobedience

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Reality, Voting, Age, Inspirational Voting, American Voters

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

topic: Country, Political, Voting, Inspirational Voting, Elections And Voting

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Voting, Vote, Power Corruption, Inspirational Voting, Landslides

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

- James Freeman Clarke

topic: Witty, Thinking, Political, Statesmanship, Statesmen

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.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Freedom, War, Party, Minority Report, Political Parties

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Political, Voting, Nerd, Inspirational Voting, Elections And Voting

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

topic: Voting, Moral, Checkers, Vote For Me, Right To Vote

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

- Larry Flynt

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sheep, Rights, Government, Individual Rights, Inspirational Voting

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Freedom, Presidential, Political, Inspirational Voting, Democracy In America

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

- Beth Broderick

source: "Hate Takes A Holiday" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2008.

topic: Sight, Voice, Voting, Lining Up, Voting Day

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

- Jim Cooper

topic: Years, Voting, Body, Voting Day