(45 quotes found)
“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.”
Tom Stoppard
“The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.”
G.K. Chesterton
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The plight of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil man”
Plato
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
Franklin Pierce Adams
“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
“We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.”
Woody Allen
“Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
Ambrose Bierce
