Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

One man with courage is a majority.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

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.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

You may elect whatever candidates you please to office, if you will allow me to select the candidates.

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.

The great majority of their sex do not want the ballot, and that to force it upon them would not only be an injustice to women, but would lessen their influence for good.

And now, here I was in a country where a right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six in each thousand of its population. For the 994 to express dissatisfaction with the … system and propose to change it, would have made the whole 6 shudder as one man … It seemed to me that what the 994 dupes needed was a new deal.

The vote is the last great equalizer that we have in this country.

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.

I know that my voice and my vote matter and that I can help shape the outcome of events that I care deeply about.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.