Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Robert C. Winthrop
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Andrew Lack
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.
Nancy Neuman
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
Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting
Henry Louis Mencken
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen
Although that's not surprising, given that voters were accompanied into the booths by Saddam's Ba'ath party officials, and given a choice between voting for Saddam or voting for their wives and children to be killed, and their houses to be burnt down.
Rory Bremner
I made it very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money to promote science which destroys life in order to save life is I'm against that. And therefore, if the bill does that, I will veto it.
George Walker Bush