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The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin1878–1953
Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone1899–1947
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
ASArt Spander
- Democracy
It is fast approaching the point where I don’t want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)
It’s going to be the ballot or the bullet.
Malcolm X1925–1965“The Ballot or the Bullet” speech (1964)
- Guns
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.
Samuel Adams1722–1803Essay published in The Advertiser (1748) and later reprinted in The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams, Volume 1 (1865), by William Vincent Wells
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
BVBill Vaughan1915–1977
We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard1868–1930The Best of Kin Hubbard (1984)
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Warren G. Harding1865–1923Speech at Birmingham, Alabama, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921) quoted in Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (1977) by Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, .
- Race
The freeman casting with unpurchased hand
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“Poetry, a Metrical Essay”, Poems (1836)
Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Gods and Greens” (1989)
- Democracy
Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can “the consent of the governed” be given, if the right to vote be denied?
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906On the United States Declaration of Independence in her “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” speech before her trial for voting (1873)
- Democracy
Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (1865)
- Race