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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Voting, American, Themselves

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Earth

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

Character, Depends, User

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama

Thinking, Country, Sometimes

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

Alone, Lost, May

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Voting

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Women, Men, Long

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

Single, Pay, Necessary

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski

Time, Democracy, Between

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

Time, Words, Against

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers

Important, Left

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Law

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Government, Tax, Pay

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

Hell, Against, Anybody

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul

Single, Why, Debt

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
Robert Mugabe

Together, After, Gun

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
Nelson Mandela

Political, Franchise, Basis

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Act, Gays

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
Barack Obama

Happy, Everything, Friends

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint Eastwood

Year, Republican

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

Best, Candidate

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Good, Bad, Washington

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Men, Wise

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
Mitt Romney

Destiny, Last, Few

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.
Mitt Romney

Young, American, Democrat

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove

Education, Good, Voting

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Government, Words, Tax

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

Against, Anyone

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan

Good, Bad, Elected

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger

Good, Government, Nothing

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