Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-93] of 93 Election quotesElection QuotesElection Previous 20 quotes It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.~ Harry S. Truman As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?~ William Marcy Tweed I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.~ William Marcy Tweed According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans.~ R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.... The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage.~ Sir Alex Fraser Tytler A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.~ Sir Alex Fraser Tytler We need a law that will allow a voter to sue a candidate for breach of promise.~ Unknown A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.~ Bill Vaughan Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.~ Clemens von Metternich In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate -- look at his character. It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, men of truth, hating covetousness. It is to the neglect of this rule that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, speculations and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves; which tarnish the character of our country and which disgrace our government. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.~ Noah Webster Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.~ E. B. White All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... ‘We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.’ So they begin to ask: ‘What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.’~ Woodrow Wilson We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.~ Woodrow Wilson Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print