“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.”
“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
“In every election in American history both parties have their clichés. The party that has the clichés that ring true wins.”
“The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.”
“I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ‘Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.’”
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
“I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.”
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
“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.”
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
“I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”
“The face of a country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
“Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote.”
“Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”