Herman Melville Quotes

Political discussions fly over the heads of those who have no votes, and are not endeavoring to acquire them.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

If you don't vote, you don't count.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Political elections are not life and death.

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.

Your vote is your voice.

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

If you give up on politics, you give up on democracy … and then we are absolute plutocracy.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Whether you either passionately think we should stay in, or on balance think we should stay in, or on a balance of risks think we should stay in - for heaven's sake get out and vote in, because you might wake up and find out you're out.

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

The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.