{"id":7328,"date":"2015-10-19T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2015-10-20T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:58:33","slug":"20-quotes-on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"20 quotes on voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u201cEvery election is determined by the people who show up.\u201d \u2013 Larry J. Sabato<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe don\u2019t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.\u201d \u2013 Charles M. Blow<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThat we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.\u201d \u2013 Lou Henry Hoover<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.\u201d \u2013 John Quincy Adams<\/li>\n<li>\u201cElections belong to the people. It&#8217;s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.\u201d \u2013 Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVote for the man who promises least; he\u2019ll be the least disappointing.\u201d \u2013 Bernard Baruch<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.\u201d \u2013 Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVoters don&#8217;t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.\u201d &#8211; George F. Will<\/li>\n<li>\u201c&#8230;they say if you don&#8217;t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.\u201d \u2013 E.A. Bucchianeri<\/li>\n<li>\u201cScoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.\u201d \u2013 William Earl Maxwell<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDemocracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.\u201d \u2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.\u201d \u2013 George Jean Nathan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.\u201d &#8211; H.L. Menken<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.\u201d \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.\u201d \u2013 Walter Cronkite<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf you are bored and disgusted by politics and don&#8217;t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties\u2026 By all means stay home if you want, but don&#8217;t bullshit yourself that you&#8217;re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard&#8217;s vote.\u201d &#8211; David Foster Wallace<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAll voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.\u201d &#8211; Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVoter apathy is a civic abdication.\u201d \u2013 Charles M. Blow<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJust because you do not take an interest in politics doesn&#8217;t mean politics won&#8217;t take an interest in you.\u201d &#8211; Pericles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taxes3.jpg\" alt=\"taxes3\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taxes3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taxes3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taxes3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taxes3-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery election is determined by the people who show up.\u201d \u2013 Larry J. Sabato \u201cWe don\u2019t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.\u201d \u2013 Charles M. Blow \u201cThat we have the vote means nothing. That we use it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}