Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-11-05 Nov 5, 2014I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.~ John F. KennedyThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonCompassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas Sowell Nov 4, 2014It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.~ Harry S. TrumanTo govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.~ Edmund BurkeNothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.~ Mark B. Cohen Nov 3, 2014The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.~ Sir Winston ChurchillElections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.~ Will RogersEvery election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.~ H. L. Mencken Oct 31, 2014To change masters is not to be free.~ Jose Marti y PerezA man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.~ Lysander SpoonerIn the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.~ Ben H. Bagdikian Oct 30, 2014If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.~ Orson Scott CardComrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how.~ Josef StalinAs long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?~ William Marcy Tweed Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print