Quotes About Duty To Vote

#1. The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

Bob Black

#3. I'm a schizophrenic writer.

Lynn Nottage

#4. Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

Stephen Colbert

#5. But, as so often happens, crimes committed with extraordinary boldness are more likely to succeed than any others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.

Dave Matthews

#7. Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
to ensure that right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

Gordon Brown

#9. The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan

Beverly Cleary

#11. Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Jay Griffiths

#12. Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy ... Vote!

George Takei

#13. The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.

Roger Tory Peterson

#14. Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

Marissa Meyer

#15. Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. I vote and I do jury duty.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#18. Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

John Jay Hooker

#19. Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. Never saw a point in showing up for jury duty. I already know I'm going to vote guilty." Ari's mouth made a tiny O, and she put her hand to her heart. "What about justice?"
"It is justice. Whoever they are, they're guilty of making me show up for jury duty.

J.C. Nelson

#21. he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.

James Shapiro

#22. You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

David Barton

#23. A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

Goodluck Jonathan

#25. We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

David Gergen

#26. People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.

Lyndon B. Johnson