Louis L'Amour Quotes

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Many people in the UN vote and then go home where nobody votes.

If you sit on the sidelines [and not vote], you are responsible for what happens.

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

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

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

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

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.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

I love election day, and I love to vote.