Ballots Quotes - Page 6

• Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Simple, Tariffs, Blame

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.209, Hoover Press

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• The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Strong, Men

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

  Henry Cuellar

  Voting, President, Tickets

  "Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to vote Obama" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

  Gus Hall

  America, Next Steps, Slavery

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• One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

  Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

  Mean, Nuisance, Oracles

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• I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

  Shimon Peres

  Stronger, Weakness, Public Opinion

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Rights, Law

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.

  James Bovard

  Government, Imagination, Political

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

  Florence Luscomb

  Real, Economic, Monopoly

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• So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Numbers, Leader, Unhappy

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Successful, Choices, Election

  United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, (318), 1941.

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• When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

  Kelly Link

  Awards, Two, Three

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 38 (1949)

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• We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

  Dan Savage

  Monday, Morning, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

  Lysander Spooner

  Secret, Enemy, Use

  Lysander Spooner (2013). “No Treason”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues. Those are up to the people of Ohio. But I certainly support the efforts of the governor to reign in the scale of government. I am not terribly familiar with the two ballot initiatives. But I am certainly supportive of the Republican Party's efforts here.

  Mitt Romney

  Crazy, Party, Government

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• We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Years, Law

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• To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place in American society. And as long as gays are not penalized in the civil arena, I think the folks should make the call at the ballot box. Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer, and I believe that is true.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Warrior, Gay

  "Culture Warrior". Book by Bill O'Reilly, September 25, 2006.

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• In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

  William Feather

  Education, Mean, People

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• But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Usa, People

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• Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

  Benjamin Tucker

  Voting, Slavery, Privilege

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• In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.

  Steve Symms

  Gun, America, Justice

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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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• We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

  Larry McDonald

  Political, Liberty, Four

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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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