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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
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.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is read more
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of read more
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).
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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.