Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-08-05 Aug 5, 2026If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.~ Emma GoldmanThose who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.~ Josef StalinI don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.~ William Marcy Tweed Aug 4, 2026When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.~ Benjamin FranklinA wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.~ Henry David ThoreauNow that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses.~ Juvenal Aug 3, 2026Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.~ Edmund BurkeNone of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayI could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.~ Thomas Jefferson Jul 31, 2026The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.~ Art SpanderWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.~ Clarence S. DarrowIf I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you're likely to win?~ Michael Badnarik Jul 30, 2026Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas SowellPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.~ Oscar AmeringerParticipation is an instrument of conquest because it encourages people to give their consent to being governed. ... Deeply embedded in people's sense of fair play is the principle that those who play the game must accept the outcome. Those who participate in politics are similarly committed, even if they are consistently on the losing side. Why do politicians plead with everyone to get out and vote? Because voting is the simplest and easiest form of participation by masses of people. Even though it is minimal participation, it is sufficient to commit all voters to being governed, regardless of who wins.~ Theodore Lowi Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print