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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The ballot is stronger than bullets. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. -- James Buchanan
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. -- E. Franklin Frazier
If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age. -- Pete Coors
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. -- Ida B. Wells
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. -- Lysander Spooner
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. -- Lord Salisbury
What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN. -- Wavy Gravy
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. -- Rose Schneiderman
You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in. -- Carl Lewis
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. -- Susan B. Anthony
When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive. -- Kirk Cameron
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? -- Benjamin Harrison
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. -- Malcolm X
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive. -- Kirk Cameron
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. -- George Soros
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. -- Ambrose Bierce
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008. -- Michele Bachmann
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box. -- Christine Pelosi
Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. -- Ron Fournier
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. -- Rose Schneiderman
Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will. -- John Sununu
I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty. -- Michael Moore
The ballot is the only safety. -- Frederick Douglass
Never forgive at the ballot box! -- Wendell Phillips
Democracy is more than a ballot box. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
You can't put civil rights on the ballot. -- Jesse Ventura
Money has much more power down the ballot. -- Jane Mayer
Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. -- Gus Hall
I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee. -- Bert Blyleven
We've had to be creative to get on the ballot. -- Kinky Friedman
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in. -- Orel Hershiser
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. -- Richard Flanagan
Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education. -- John Monash
Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. -- Rush Limbaugh
Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship, -- Joseph Estrada
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return. -- Benazir Bhutto
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot. -- Boyd K. Packer
In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes. -- Katsuya Okada
It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death -- Malcolm X
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. -- Catherine Helen Spence
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln
If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot. -- Malcolm X
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws. -- Cynthia McKinney
Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring. -- Laura Kuenssberg
I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party. -- Andrew Cuomo
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Frederick Douglass
If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty. -- Al Franken
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. -- Jane Addams
In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot. -- John McCain
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. -- Cory Doctorow
We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box. -- Nina Turner
Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot. -- Paul Ryan
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? -- Benjamin Tucker
Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump. -- Dalia Mogahed
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot. -- Charles Duhigg
I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina. -- Lindsey Graham
I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful. -- Julianne Malveaux
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. -- Lord Salisbury
The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. -- Harry S. Truman
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day. -- Neil Kinnock
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. -- Kelly Ayotte
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box. -- Steve Symms
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot. -- Ralph Nader
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot. -- Russell Brand
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character. -- Booker T. Washington
I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. -- Karl Rove
Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward. -- Virginia Foxx
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government. -- Barack Obama
I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes. -- William Weld
If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot. -- Jon Stewart
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. -- Sarah Vowell
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -- Larry McDonald
If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win. -- Jesse Ventura
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme. -- Avi Rubin
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. -- Booker T. Washington
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life. -- Florence Luscomb
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. -- Lydia M. Child
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman. -- Susan B. Anthony
When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction. -- Kelly Link
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box. -- Bob Brown
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties. -- Ludwig von Mises
Leftists don't leave it at winning at the ballot box. If they lose at the ballot box, they force themselves on the country or society elsewhere. -- Rush Limbaugh
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams. -- Francisco Franco
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point. -- Nick Clegg
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. -- John Jay Hooker
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. -- Neil Kinnock
Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was. -- Tom Ridge
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet. -- Saul Alinsky
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy. -- Richard Armitage
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. -- Donald Rumsfeld
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. -- Malcolm X
I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. -- Henry Villard
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box. -- Wesley Clark
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. -- Bob Schaffer
In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property. -- Daniel Guerin
Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot. -- Daniel Tosh
These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky! -- Lewis Black
With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon. -- John Bright
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box. -- Frederick Douglass
I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We don't have 30 million dollars. We're a people powered campaign. -- Jill Stein
The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined. -- Chris Hayes
A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. -- Malcolm X
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else. -- Justin Trudeau
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. -- Maggie Gallagher
Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee. -- Michael Beschloss
The Southern Progress Fund will bring much-needed resources into multiple Southern states where Democrats must identify up-and-coming leaders and build a bench of strong potential candidates up and down the ballot. -- Ronnie Musgrove

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