Election Day Quotes - Page 2

• Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Voting, Vote, Power Corruption

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• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

  Mario Cuomo

  Poetry, Political, Campaigns

  The New Republic, April 04, 1985.

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• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Jobs, Responsibility

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

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• Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Years, Matter

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• It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

  Brad Henry

  Democracy, Election, Wonderful

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• No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Blue, Talking, White

  "European spring".

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• Don't vote, it only encourages them.

  Billy Connolly

  Political, Election, Vote

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• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Freedom, Integrity, Adversity

  The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• 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

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Decision, Nerd, Important

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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• I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Change, Night, Events

  "A Call to America: Inspiring and Empowering Quotations from the 43 presidents of the United States". Book by Bryan Curtis, 2002.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Voting, Political Wisdom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Political Will, Order

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• The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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• Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

  Steven G. Calabresi

  People, Mind, Income

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• Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Race, Political, Progress

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• Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Freedom, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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  Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Voting

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Political, Election, Should

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• The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Government, People

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