James Buchanan Quotes

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.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

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?

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

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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.

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.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

What we are seeing here is democracy in action.

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

In this country, you don't have any democracy really. You have the right to elect but not to select. For example, here's two people: you get to vote for one of them. But you didn't choose in the first place either of them. That's not democracy…

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

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

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

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

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

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

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

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.