An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON VOTES
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848, American President (6th))
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848, American President (6th))
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906, American social reformer and women's suffrage leader)
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965, American financier)
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965, American financier)
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933, American author)
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908, American President (22nd and 24th))
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, American President (34th))
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry (1862-1910, American writer)
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973, American President (36th))
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
Ken Kesey
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974, American journalist)
We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.
Peter Prichard
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
William L. Shirer
Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard (1937-, Czech playwright)
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
Author Unknown
No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.
Author Unknown
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance."
Author Unknown
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)
It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George F. Will (1941-, American political columnist)
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