The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Vote early and vote often.
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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