VOTING

Related Subjects: Democracy, Election, Government, People, Politics

1. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.—Anonymous
   

2. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a
   public trust.—GROVER CLEVELAND
   

3. Of this full emancipation of women, the political vote is assuredly not, as is rather commonly supposed in a land of party politics, the be-all and end-all; it as a symbol, whose practical importance—though considerable—is as nothing beside the fulfillment of the idea which it symbolizes.—GALSWORTHY
   

4. The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand,
   The vote that shakes the turret of the land.—O. W. HOLMES, Poetry, a Metrical Essay
   

5. Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.—LINCOLN
   

6. They have such refined and delicate palates
   That they can discover no one worthy of their ballots,
   And then when some one terrible gets elected
   They say, There, that's just what I expected!—OGDEN NASH, Election Day Is a Holiday