Evelyn Waugh Quotes

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.

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.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

Each county elector makes his own rules

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.

Voting is super important, and your vote counts.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

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

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.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.