Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I am a person who has never used violence himself. My present opinion is that people who have obtained the ballot should use it and solve their problems in that way. In the case of peoples who have not obtained the ballot, and who cannot control their states, I again find in my own mind a division of opinion, which is not logical, but purely a rough practical judgment. My own forefathers got their political freedom by violence; that is to say, they overthrew the British crown and made themselves a free Republic. Also by violence they put an end to the enslavement of the black race on this continent.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

The ballot has failed us, but the bullet has not.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

Liberty is not worth the shedding of a single drop of blood.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

Every voter in Ukraine should have their say on the future they want for their country.

We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.