Voting

(266 votes)   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
1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

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(263 votes)   Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams
1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

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(239 votes)   Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(220 votes)   Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Susan B. Anthony
1820-1906, American Social Reformer and Women's Suffrage Leader

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(155 votes)   The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(139 votes)   The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(138 votes)   When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(133 votes)   There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(113 votes)   Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(111 votes)   The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(111 votes)   There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(109 votes)   The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(108 votes)   It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Gore Vidal
1925-, American Novelist, Critic

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(100 votes)   The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

John Jay Chapman
1862-1933, American Author

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(99 votes)   All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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