Ballots Quotes

The ballots don’t make the results—the counters make the results.

Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

What we are seeing here is democracy in action.

The ballot has failed us, but the bullet has not.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod ;, But executes a freeman’s will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force, nor doors nor locks Can shield you;—’tis the ballot box.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

The ballot is the only safety.

Body of Liberties

The ballot can give our civilization its crowning glory—the Cooperative Commonwealth.

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

The question of primary elections is one of government for the people and by the people. Under our system of government by political parties, two elements, equal in importance, are involved in the exercise of suffrage; one, the making of the ballot; the other, the casting of the ballot. The right to cast the ballot is regarded as sacred. The right to make the ballot is equally sacred. No man would be willing to delegate his power to vote the ballot at general elections. No man shall be compelled to delegate his power to make his ballot.

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

Men who cannot read are the mercy of a few men who are interested in self more than in good government. The country is the sufferer; for the effect of one ballot is felt to the utmost extremity of the body politic; it touches every industry and trade, it accelerates or retards the wheels of commerce, and fills the avenues of trade with life and general activity such as is found in no other country.

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

What happens if a boatload of immigrants comes over from wherever and decides that they want to cast ballots?