Voting Quotes - Page 4

Voting is a civic sacrament.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

If voting made any difference, it would be illegal.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

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

There is nothing patriotic about voting for Brexit.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.