There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

No candidate too pallid, No issue too remote, But it can snare A questionnaire To analyze our vote.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood: a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal-that you can gather votes like box tops-is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

In years divisible by two we expect the truth to be trashed and decency to be mugged.