Quotes about voting

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

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

— John Quincy Adams

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

— Susan B. Anthony

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

— Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

— Grover Cleveland

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

— O. Henry

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

— Kin Hubbard

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

— John F. Kennedy

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

— John F. Kennedy

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

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

— John F. Kennedy

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

— Ken Kesey

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

— H. L. Mencken

We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.

— Peter Prichard

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

— William L. Shirer

Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.

— Bill Stern

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

— Tom Stoppard

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

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

— Harry S Truman

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.

— Source Unknown

In times of stress and strain, people will vote.

— Source Unknown

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.

— Source Unknown

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

— Gore Vidal

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

— Gore Vidal

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

— George F. Will

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln