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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they wont think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money.They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
Vote early and vote often.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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.
Lower voter participation is a silent threat to our democracy...It under-represents young people, the poor, the disabled, those with little education, minorities and you and me.
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Millions of votes are thrown out in election after election in this country. Now that's a story.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
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