Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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.
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. 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."
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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.
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
or simply:
