Voting Quotes

“The ballot is the quiet civilizer, the weapon of the wise and the good.”

“The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical the voting public becomes.”

“Our democracy is stronger when more people participate, not fewer.”

“If you don't vote, you don't count.”

“A citizen who casts a vote with no thought of the effect that vote may have on the country is a citizen who has betrayed the country.”

“The ballot is a weapon of self-protection, a means of securing fair treatment.”

“Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most pressing civil rights and voting rights issue of our time.”

“Free a man and make him a citizen, but without the ballot he is still a slave.”

“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.”

“Our cry is for the ballot, which is the symbol of citizenship in a republic.”

“If you don't vote, you don't count.”

“When women vote, women win.”

“If you are 18, 19, 20 years old, a Canadian citizen and you're not registered to vote... what the hell is wrong with you?”

“For me, it's about the Presidential candidate. It's not about the party.”

“The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”

“Our only hope is to control the vote.”

“Voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.”

“As long as sixty-nine percent of the people running this country are men, there's going to be a women's vote.”

“Casting a vote is not a righteous duty. It is not a moral obligation. It is a simple impossibility for any man to vote intelligently who does not take the time to study the issues and the candidates.”

“There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters.”