The man who can right himself by a vote will seldom resort to a musket.

James Fenimore Cooper

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Grover Cleveland

The first step toward liberation for any group is to use the power in hand...and the power in hand is the vote.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

An election is both a selection and a rejection; it matters greatly whether reason or passion guides our choice. Reason will enlighten and elevate our understanding and it will discover in controversy the springs of a new unity. But passion will poison the political atmosphere in which the nation must meet the tests of the future.

Adlai E. Stephenson

Heroes and philosophers, brave men and vile, have since Rome and Athens tried to make this particular manner of transfer of power work effectively; no people has succeeded at it better, or over a longer period of time, than the Americans. Yet as the transfer of this power takes place, there is nothing to be seen except an occasional line outside a church or school, or a file of people fidgeting in the rain, waiting to enter the booths. No bands play on election day, no troops march, no guns are readies, no conspirators gather in secret headquarters. The noise and the blare, the bands and the screaming, the pageantry and oratory of the long fall campaign, fade on election day. All the planning is over, all effort spent. Now the candidates must wait.

Theodore H. White