Quotes About Voting…
We all hear that voting is important, but it can be easy to feel discouraged and forget the true significance of your participation in elections.
Voting is essential because it pushes a country’s democracy to function in a fair and equal way. The whole point of a democracy is to ensure that everyone has their chance to elect a candidate and vote for policies that represent and benefit their communities.
Quotes About Voting
“Voting is a civic sacrament.”
Theodore Hesburgh
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you don’t vote, you lose the right to complain.”
George Carlin
“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.”
Susan B. Anthony
“Voting is not only our right—it is our power.”
Loung Ung
“Talk is cheap, voting is free; take it to the polls.”
Nanette L. Avery
“We can all agree on the importance of voting.”
Jenna Bush
“Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.”
Keith Ellison
“There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter.”
Barack Obama
“Somewhere inside of all of us is the power to change the world.”
Roald Dahl
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don’t vote.”
George Jean Nathan
“By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.”
Jens Stoltenberg
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
Alan Moore
“I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.”
Beth Broderick
“Democracy is based upon the conviction there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country, and this world.”
Sharon Salzberg
“We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.”
Louis Brandeis
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.”
Peggy Noonan
“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
Alexander Hamilton
“It’s not enough to just want change … You have to go and make change by voting.”
Taylor Swift
“Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we started exercising the Democratic process.”
Debbie Stabenow
“The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.”
John Lewis,
“All of us may have been created equal. But we’ll never actually be equal until we all vote. So don’t wait.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Your voices are being heard and you’re proving to our ancestors that their struggles were not in vain. Now we have one more thing we need to do to walk in our true power, and that is to vote.”
Beyoncé
