Voting Quotes - Page 4

• The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Liberty, Plunder

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

  Walter Lippmann

  Effort, Facts, Want

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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• I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Racist, Next

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• What governs men is the fear of truth.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men

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• To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Honor, Principles

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Years

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Law, Thank God

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.440

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• In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

  George Washington

  Running, Strong, Party

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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• No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

  Roger Mudd

  Character, Names, Giving

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• In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Men, Divine

  Jonathan Swift, Jesse Gale, Cynthia Brantley Johnson (2005). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Philosophy, Political, Weakness

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.130, Turner Publishing Company

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• Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Party, Passion, Political Opinions

  Hilaire Belloc (2008). “The Party System”, p.37, IHS Press

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• Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.

  Ronald Reagan

  Godly, Destiny, Leader

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• I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It government is our servant, beholden to us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Crush, Party, Balance

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.281

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• But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Heart, Government, Attachment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

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• Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

  Rights, Long, Majority

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• There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vote, Poor

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Men, Bullets

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

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• The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Office, House, Political

  "Brandeis: A Free Man's Life". Book by Alpheus Thomas Mason, 1946.

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• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Country, People, Important

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• If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

  Ken Livingstone

  Democracies Have, Political, Democracy

  Ken Livingstone (2011). “You Can't Say That: Memoirs”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

  Benjamin Carson

  Responsibility, Self, People

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• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  Earl Long

  Sweet, Home, Machines

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• Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

  Arlen Specter

  Democracy, Fundamentals, Return

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