Voting Quotes

"Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day."

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

George Jean Nathan

"Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world."

Sharon Salzberg

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."

“Suffrage is the pivotal right.”

“It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.”

“Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given if the right to vote be denied?”

“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”

“Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labour.”

“Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other.”

“Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.”

“You've got to vote, vote, vote. That's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.”

“All the blood is drained out of democracy; it dies when only half the population votes.”

“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 key is to vote, because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.”

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely."

"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A man without a vote is a man without protection."

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Your vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have to create a more perfect union."

John Lewis

"Voting is a civic sacrament."

Theodore Hesburgh

"Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country, and this world."

Sharon Salzberg