Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

~ Tom Stoppard  

"History is fables agreed upon."

~ Voltaire  

"The short memories of the American voters
is what keeps our politicians in office."

~ Will Rogers  

"If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal."

~ Emma Goldman  

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

~ Art Spander  

"Participation is an instrument of conquest because it encourages people to give their consent to being governed. ... Deeply embedded in people's sense of fair play is the principle that those who play the game must accept the outcome. Those who participate in politics are similarly committed, even if they are consistently on the losing side. Why do politicians plead with everyone to get out and vote? Because voting is the simplest and easiest form of participation by masses of people. Even though it is minimal participation, it is sufficient to commit all voters to being governed, regardless of who wins."

~ Theodore Lowi  

"Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge."

~ Clemens von Metternich  

"Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldn't be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis."

~ Charley Reese  

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Comrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how."

~ Josef Stalin  

"Our experience has shown us that in the excitement of great popular elections, deciding the policy of the country, and its vast patronage, frauds will be committed, if a chance is given for them. If these frauds are allowed, the result is not only that the popular will may be defeated, and the result falsified, but that the worst side will prevail. The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, "Vote early and vote often!" and the familiar problem, "how to cast the greatest number of votes with the smallest number of voters", indicate the direction in which the dangers lie."

~ Richard Henry Dana, Jr.  

"I don't care who does the electing,
so long as I get to do the nominating."

~ William Marcy Tweed  

"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"The entire American political system is a con, a sleazy mix of
legalized bribes, auctioning off of favors, revolving doors between
government agencies and the corporations they enrich and the blatant
hypocrisy of snake-oil salespeople who know the marks (voters) face a
false choice between two parties that are the same poison sold under
different labels."

~ Charles Hugh Smith  

"If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds ... its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos."

~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe