VOTING QUOTES
quotations about voting
You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world
DEPECHE MODE
"New Dress"
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
If we don't cast a ballot, it's going to end up in a situation where we're going to have to cast a bullet. It's either a ballot or a bullet.
MALCOLM X
speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, "The Ballot or the Bullet", April 3, 1964
A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Our strongest weapon is our vote. Right now there's a lot of energy floating around, but unless we harness that energy with voting, it's not going to be as crucial as it can be.
RAMIRO LUNA
"Dallas Has the Worst Voters in the Entire Country", D Magazine, April 25, 2017
A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.
MALCOLM X
speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, "The Ballot or the Bullet", April 3, 1964
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
attributed, Speak Out with Clout
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
EMMA GOLDMAN
attributed, The Quotable Politician
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
Vote for the man who promises least -- he'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH
attributed, Computer World, November 11, 1996
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves -- and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The Wit and Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Atlantic Online, August 26, 1997
I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.
W. C. FIELDS
attributed, Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Voting is a civic sacrament.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH
Reader's Digest, October 1984
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
attributed, Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes
We are sorely in need of a voting machine with a space for "Remarks."
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.
REVILO P. OLIVER
Liberty Bell Magazine, April 1980
This year 30% of the country is voting electronically, finally combining the confusion of a 1700's electoral system with the utter lack of accountability of 21st-century technology ... nothing to worry about!
BOB WILTFONG
The Daily Show
Voting is a tool of popular control over the decisions made on behalf and in the name of the polity as a whole. The control may be direct, as in the case of referenda over constitutional proposals, or indirect, as in elections of the members of the legislatures. The tool is not in all respects perfect: all voting systems are plagued with some shortcomings that may cast doubt on the meaning or legitimacy of the outcomes reached by using them.
HANNU NURMI
Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them
You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.
MARSHALL KARP
The Rabbit Factory