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“We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

“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.”

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.”

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Author:Alexander Fraser Tytler

“The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.”

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Author:Karl Popper

“Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.”

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Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself