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• 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

  Voting, Moral, Checkers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Politics, Knows

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Voting, Towers

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  Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Men, Voting

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

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• Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

  Harry S. Truman

  Real, People, Choices

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• The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Voting, Clear

  The New York Times, November 11, 1963.

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

  Akbar Ganji

  Clever, Expectations, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Teamwork, Democracy, Society

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• If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Men, White Man

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• Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gun, Lunch, Democracies Have

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

  Gore Vidal

  Nice, Believe, Men

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Daddy, Wire, Politics

  Remarks at Gridiron Dinner,Washington, D.C., 15 Mar. 1958.

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• If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

  Ann Coulter

  Silly, Worry, President

  Interview with "New York Observer", October 2, 2007.

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• Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Fifty

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• Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

  Evan Bayh

  Two, Today, Determined

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• I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, African American

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

  Malcolm X

  Country, Army, Fighting

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• The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Black, Needs, Republican

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Privilege, Revolutionary, Black Power

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

  Will Rogers

  Men, People, Political

  Will Rogers (1982). “More letters of a self-made diplomat”, Oklahoma State University Press

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• Vote early and vote often.

  Al Capone

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trust, Order, Differences

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.190, City Lights Books

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