Top 41 Free Election Quotes
#1. On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
Jim Gerlach
#2. Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Herbert Marcuse
#3. Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.
John M. McHugh
#5. They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
#6. Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.
Elliott Abrams
#7. I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.
Mickey Edwards
#8. Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.
Christine Gregoire
#9. The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany.
Bernie Sanders
#10. And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
Kenneth Blackwell
#11. If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.
Garry Wills
#12. We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe deserve a free and fair election.
Raila Odinga
#14. I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#15. The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#16. Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
George Whitefield
#17. Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#18. The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.
W. A. Criswell
#19. Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
Arthur Capper
#20. The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.
Bill Maher
#21. The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#22. A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#24. How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?
John Wesley
#25. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.
Hillary Clinton
#26. Russians who voted in 1990 did not think that this would be the last free and fair election in their country's history, which (thus far) it has been.
Timothy Snyder
#27. This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.
Ted Cruz
#28. Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.
Douglas Brinkley
#29. It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#30. How the Committee of 300 Arranges Elections The term "fair and free elections" has no meaning in the U.S. The candidates for the presidency are selected by the Committee of 300 so in reality it does not matter who "wins" the election and goes on to the White House. The
John Coleman
#31. Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern
#32. Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.
Tam David-West
#33. The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.
Leonid Brezhnev
#34. The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out.
Vyacheslav Molotov
#35. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
Kenneth Blackwell
#36. The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy
Ali Khamenei
#37. Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.
John Battelle
#38. The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election
George Carlin
#39. I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
Henry Miller
#40. The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
Warren Christopher
#41. perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?
Tyler Cowen
