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Duty To Vote Quotes By Jay Griffiths

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. — Jay Griffiths

Duty To Vote Quotes By J.C. Nelson

Never saw a point in showing up for jury duty. I already know I'm going to vote guilty." Ari's mouth made a tiny O, and she put her hand to her heart. "What about justice?"
"It is justice. Whoever they are, they're guilty of making me show up for jury duty. — J.C. Nelson

Duty To Vote Quotes By Mark Twain

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them ... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease ... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country. — Mark Twain

Duty To Vote Quotes By Christopher Hitchens

I vote and I do jury duty. — Christopher Hitchens

Duty To Vote Quotes By Mark Twain

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does. — Mark Twain

Duty To Vote Quotes By Goodluck Jonathan

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will. — Goodluck Jonathan

Duty To Vote Quotes By Dave Matthews

A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it. — Dave Matthews

Duty To Vote Quotes By Stephen Colbert

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE. — Stephen Colbert

Duty To Vote Quotes By George W. Bush

We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote. — George W. Bush

Duty To Vote Quotes By Bob Black

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. — Bob Black

Duty To Vote Quotes By Hunter S. Thompson

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy. — Hunter S. Thompson

Duty To Vote Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
to ensure that right. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Duty To Vote Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Duty To Vote Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

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

Duty To Vote Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

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

Duty To Vote Quotes By Mark Twain

Yes," I said, "that is what I mean to say. I am not going to vote for him." The others began to find their voices. They sang the same note. They said that when a party's representatives choose a man, that ends it. If they choose unwisely it is a misfortune, but no loyal member of the party has any right to withhold his vote. He has a plain duty before him and he can't shirk it. He must vote for that nominee. I said that no party held the privilege of dictating to me how I should vote. That if party loyalty was a form of patriotism, I was no patriot, and that I didn't think I was much of a patriot anyway, for oftener than otherwise what the general body of Americans regarded as the patriotic course was not in accordance with my views; that if there was any valuable difference between being an American and a monarchist it lay in the theory that the American could decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't; whereas — Mark Twain

Duty To Vote Quotes By James Davison Hunter

A final irony has to do with the idea of political responsibility. Christians are urged to vote and become involved in politics as an expression of their civic duty and public responsibility. This is a credible argument and good advice up to a point. Yet in our day, given the size of the state and the expectations that people place on it to solve so many problems, politics can also be a way of saying, in effect, that the problems should be solved by others besides myself and by institutions other than the church. It is, after all, much easier to vote for a politician who champions child welfare than to adopt a baby born in poverty, to vote for a referendum that would expand health care benefits for seniors than to care for an elderly and infirmed parent, and to rally for racial harmony than to get to know someone of a different race than yours. True responsibility invariably costs. Political participation, then, can and often does amount to an avoidance of responsibility. — James Davison Hunter

Duty To Vote Quotes By Rutherford B. Hayes

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Duty To Vote Quotes By Daniel Webster

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own. — Daniel Webster

Duty To Vote Quotes By David Barton

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote. — David Barton

Duty To Vote Quotes By Gordon Brown

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust. — Gordon Brown

Duty To Vote Quotes By John Jay Hooker

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote. — John Jay Hooker

Duty To Vote Quotes By Roger Tory Peterson

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them. — Roger Tory Peterson

Duty To Vote Quotes By Criss Jami

Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You should note that, as nonsensical a scenario, if forced to choose I would most definitely rather live in a failing, Christ-honoring, God-fearing nation than a flourishing one that mocks said Creator. Beware of my personal ambitions. — Criss Jami

Duty To Vote Quotes By George Takei

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy ... Vote! — George Takei

Duty To Vote Quotes By Mark Twain

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease. — Mark Twain

Duty To Vote Quotes By Thomas Jefferson

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature. — Thomas Jefferson

Duty To Vote Quotes By David Gergen

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands. — David Gergen