Quotes
Quotes about Vote
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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.
We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable "animated instrument" which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacleâpushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.
I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)
Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one Flock the synagogue of swallows, Met to vote that autumn's gone.
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
