Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "V" » vote
«To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
notion, observers, participant, participants, right to vote, The Observer, the participants, vote
«People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.»
«Our only hope is to control the vote.»
Author: Medgar Evers
| Keywords:
vote
«People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.»
«Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Politicians,
Voting
| Keywords:
abandoning, accused, Republicans, the other way around, vote
«Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constituencies, constituency, discovered, finally, includes, made-up, percent, population, populations, program, programmed, security, social, Social Security, special, special interest, special interests, vote
«Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.»
«Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| Keywords:
convincing, feel like, letters, march, political, Political history, sooner, vote
«The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.»
«The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
dry, polled, Polling, polls, sober, South, stagger, staggered, staggering, staggers, the South, To South, to the south, vote
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
