Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

No candidate too pallid, No issue too remote, But it can snare A questionnaire To analyze our vote.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy-and won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

There no longer can be anyone too poor to vote.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.