Noah Webster Quotes

Voting should be the right of the great body of the society…an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.

Politicians, even if their motives are not of the purest, come much nearer performing their duties than the so-called "good" citizens who stay at home [on Election Day.]

The extension of suffrage will not forbid the supremacy of intelligence.

A voting record is your work product. It tells people where you stand on issues, and for better or worse it implies you're there doing what you're elected to do. It's the only litmus test available.

After meditation and prayer ... I conclude with melancholy that God lays upon me the revolting duty of voting for the numbskull, [Warren] Gamaliel [Harding], on the first Tuesday in November.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

It's not a big deal for me to be leader of the Green Party. It is a big deal for me to represent the voters of Saanich-Gulf Islands.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.

Exercise your right to vote.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

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.

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

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.