Check a box - any box

So, today is election day. It's today that we as regular citizens make our voices heard. Now's your chance - if you don't like what the government, at any level, is doing - tell them by casting your vote.

How people are unaware there's an election going on is beyond me, but there are some. I'm guessing they've been living under rocks or are all deaf and blind. But anyway, they too get to vote.

So for fun, I took a dive into the Internet and found some quote about voting and exercising our right to vote. Apparently, there are quite a few skeptics of our system, but hey - at least there's a system and we get a say in it. However, some of the quotes, if you think about them or a moment, hold some level of truth.

So enjoy the quotes and be sure to get out there and make your voice heard.



"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." ~ George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." ~ Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks, 1944

"The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment." ~ Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

"An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation." ~ Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933

"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." ~ Art Spander

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." ~ H. L. Mencken



"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." ~ Gore Vidal

"Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want." ~ Anna Lappe

"When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them." ~ Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks (1944)



"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." ~ Sir Winston Churchill