30 Inspiring Voting Quotes - Best Quotes About Elections & Why to Vote

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Democracy is based upon the conviction there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Louis Brandeis

"The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen."

Peggy Noonan

"Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls."

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Sharon Salzberg

“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country, and this world.”

Alexander Hamilton

“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

Nanette L. Avery

"Talk is cheap, voting is free; take it to the polls."

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Debbie Stabenow

“Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we started exercising the Democratic process.”

Jose Marti

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself."

Monica Crowley

"Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one."

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Jenna Bush

"We can all agree on the importance of voting."

Keith Ellison

"Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender."

Barack Obama

"There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter."

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Jens Stoltenberg

“By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.”

Alan Moore

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."

Beth Broderick

"I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard."

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Thomas Jefferson

“We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

George Jean Nathan

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don’t vote.”

Roald Dahl

“Somewhere inside of all of us is the power to change the world.”

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Abraham Lincoln

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

Theodore Hesburgh

“Voting is a civic sacrament.”

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