John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

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

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

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.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

I shall not vote because I do not aspire to advise my sovereign on the choice of her servants.

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

The people's government has come to be less and less the people's business.

Democracy means not merely, I had almost said not so much, the rights of the whole people, as the duties of the whole people.

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

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

Voting is still the most exciting thing we do as Americans together.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

The 2020 Election is believed to be the most important in our lifetime. Therefore, I've chosen to become more involved in the voting process by using my social media platform to encourage voting and my facility as a Dekalb County early voting polling station.

I want to say it's important that you vote, that you get out there.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.