(173 quotes found)
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”
“First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“It's a deceptive and deceitful campaign, ... Domestic violence is not on the ballot. Alcohol is not on the ballot. Marijuana is on the ballot.”
Charlie Brown
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
Walter Lippmann
“Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.”
William Orville Douglas
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets”
“There is no evidence in this case that the ballots were ever compromised. And if the ballots weren't compromised, the election wasn't compromised.”
Barry Richard
“In this case, what we are concerned with is the intent in the little piece of paper called the ballot. Could each county have different results as to what intent is? ... It presents now a federal question to us, to determine whether or not there is new law.”
Anthony Kennedy
“Very, very few cases actually complete the task of knocking anybody off of the ballot.”
Al Bowman
