Gertrude Stein Quotes

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

When it comes to children’s issues, children don’t vote.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

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

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

There are different ways to get responsive government leaders but one of the more effective ways is to have them democratically elected.

We have achieved political democracy. Now we must make certain it reaches the minds and souls of our people.

The laboring man in this bounteous and hospitable country has no ground for complaint. His vote is potential and he is elevated thereby to the position of a man.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

If you protect a person's right to vote, then he'll protect himself better than you can.

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

Give the woman the ballot and you will make her more important in the eyes of the world.

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

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.

Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote?