115 Ballot Quotes
Following is our list of ballot quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about ballot box.
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Famous Ballot Quotes
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. — James Buchanan
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. — Carrie Chapman Catt
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois
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
Voting is a civic sacrament. — Theodore Hesburgh
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. — Nicola Sturgeon
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce
There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls. — Walter Reuther
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass
Vote early and vote often. — William Porcher Miles
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Larry McDonald
Short Ballot Quotes
- If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age. — Pete Coors
- Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. — Rush Limbaugh
- The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells
- Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln
- To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. — Abraham Lincoln
- Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes. — Michael Douglas
- The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education. — John Monash
- South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. — Catherine Helen Spence
- Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. — Abraham Lincoln
The Ballot Or The Bullet Quotes
It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary. — Malcolm X
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. — Malcolm X
A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world. — Ammon Hennacy
It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death — Malcolm X
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. — Malcolm X
Ballot Box Quotes
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box. — Frederick Douglass
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure. — Calvin Coolidge
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box. — Steve Symms
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham. — Tony Benn
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. — Charles Rangel
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box. — Bob Brown
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. — Rose Schneiderman
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. — Gus Hall
But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box. — Mark Twain
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means. — William H. Sylvis
Simple Vote Quotes
Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote. — Barack Obama
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over. — Frederick Lenz
They say, oh, let’s have multiparty politics. Let’s have different parties change and be in charge of the Government. Is it that simple? You vote in a Division Three government, not a Division One government, and the whole economy will just subside within three, four years. Finished. — Lee Kuan Yew
It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now. — Cory Booker
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being. — Jay-Z
I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. — Samuel L. Jackson
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that. — Bill Ayers
I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does. — Nick Clegg
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. — Lucy Powell
About Vote Quotes
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. — Eric Holder
When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. — Dick Cheney
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. — Birch Bayh
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election — George Carlin
The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce. — Bobby Heenan
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case. — Gene Green
The Ballon d’Or? It’s up to the journalists to vote. I do not go to bed every night thinking about it. I just try to do my best and score as many goals as possible. — Antoine Griezmann
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. — Jimmy Reid
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. — Tony Snow
Asking Vote Quotes
The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His. — Tony Evans
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. — Lucy Stone
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. — Plato
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. — Janet Reno
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout. — Carl Safina
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. — Bernard Levin
[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50. — Anna Howard Shaw
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. — Gwen Ifill
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy. — Karl Popper
Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do. — Rosario Dawson
People Writing About Ballot
More Ballot Quotes
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside. — Sojourner Truth
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands. — Booker T. Washington
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet. — Saul Alinsky
Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna? — Rick Riordan
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. — Gerald R. Ford
The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of. — Muhammadu Buhari
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. — Sarah Vowell
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment. — Carrie Chapman Catt
People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight. — Wayne Pacelle
I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare. — Malcolm X
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours? — Malcolm X
I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters. — Frances Harper
Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot. — Tony Benn
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann
We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November. — Michele Bachmann
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can! — Barack Obama
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. — Booker T. Washington
Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology. — Khem Veasna
A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of late-night talk shows. And California passed Proposition 21. That would change guacamole officially to guac. — David Letterman
Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States. — Wayne Pacelle
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