Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.
When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
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.
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.
You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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.
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