General Quotes on Elections/Voting edit

• "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." --Winston Churchill

• "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. --T.S. Eliot

• "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." --Gore Vidal

• "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." --Emma Goldman

• "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." --Lyndon B. Johnson

• "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

• "Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license." --Mark Twain

• "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. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs." --Will Rogers

• "A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation." --James Freeman Clarke

• "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." --Otto von Bismarck

• "In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character." --P. J. O'Rourke

• “Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election” --Adolf Hitler

• "Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half." --Gore Vidal

• "The ballot is stronger than the bullet." --Abraham Lincoln

• "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

• "Vote early and vote often." See http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs070.200401/votequote.html

• "If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it." --Andrew Lack

• "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected." -- Thomas Paine, Dissertation on the First Principles of Government 1795 [1]

• "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).

Sources edit

• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/election.html
• http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/voting
• http://quotes.zaadz.com/topics/voting
• http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/election/
• http://www.quotegarden.com/election-day.html
• http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blratherisms.htm

Candidate Quotes edit

See Portal:2008 Presidential Election/CandidateQuotes.