Ballots Quotes - Page 9

• The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Political, Victory

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?

  Tom Tancredo

  Mean, Decision, Doe

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• The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former.

  Lysander Spooner

  Strong, Party, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

  Francisco Franco

  Dream, Believe, Government

  "Spain: Voters Say 'S". content.time.com. June 27, 1977.

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• They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

  Saul Alinsky

  Peace, Gun, Government

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.37, Vintage

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• Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

  Joseph Estrada

  Democracy, Threat, Dictatorship

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• It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Men, Hands

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• Democracy is more than a ballot box.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Democracy, Boxes

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• A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of late-night talk shows. And California passed Proposition 21. That would change guacamole officially to guac.

  David Letterman

  New York, Night, Cities

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• Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

  Hannah Arendt

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Space

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, United States, Use

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger has still not officially bowed out of this race. It looks like he's not gonna run. But I'll tell ya, if Arnold does run, he better get on the ballot, because you don't want a write-in with a name like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because people will go - 'Schwarz, schwarz, oh Davis is easier.'

  Jay Leno

  Running, Writing, Race

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• The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Dream, Believe, Passion

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• It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.

  Justin Raimondo

  Party, Russia, Political

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• There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Government, Suffering

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• The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Boxes, Mechanism, Inadequate

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• I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fighting, Differences, Knowing

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• You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

  Jesse Ventura

  Rights, Civil Rights

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• The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

  J. G. Ballard

  Anxiety, Marketing, News

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

  Jane Addams

  Responsibility, Should Have, Moral

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• Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

  Frederick Douglass

  Daughter, School, Son

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• Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Integrity, Men

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• It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

  Harry S. Truman

  Destiny, Hands, Law

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

  Michael Copps

  Sorry, People, Memorial

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• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Peaceful, Bullets

  United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Abraham Lincoln (1861). “Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress”, p.16

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