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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls read more
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
 The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand,
 The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.  
 The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand,
 The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. 
Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.
Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing read more
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
 Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half 
completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands read more 
 Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half 
completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands 
are left without education. 
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
 I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw 
away his vote by voting read more 
 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.