| "If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation." »Thomas Mincher |
| "I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him" »Ronald Reagan |
| "People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something." »William Bennet Munro |
| "The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "vote early and vote often." »Al Capone |
| "I never vote for anyone I always vote against." »W. C. Fields |
| "Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all." »Beranrd Levin |
| "Truth is not determined by majority vote." »Doug Gwyn |
| "Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes." »Mogens Jallberg |
| "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." »George Jean Nathan |
| "Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want." »Anna Lappe |
| "What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those" »Gilbert Highet |
| "For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn" »George Gordon Byron |
| "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." »Fidel Castro |
| "When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "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." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." »H.L. Mencken |
| "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." »Bill Vaughan |
| "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." »Alexander Tyler |
| "You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
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