Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Elections

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, “Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Theodore H. White (1915–86) American Journalist, Historian, Novelist

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Actor, Comedian, Writer

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English Dramatist, Librettist, Poet, Illustrator

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
Ross Perot (1930–2019) American Businessman

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
U.S. Proverb

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich (b.1943) American Politician

Votes should be weighed, not counted.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.” Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) American Journalist, Political Satirist

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903–87) American Playwright, Diplomat, Journalist, Diplomat, Elected Rep

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960) American Columnist, Radio Personality, Author

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

There isn’t any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Gerald F. Lieberman

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Jay Leno (b.1950) American Comedian, TV Personality

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