Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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.