Do you have a good quote on voting?

[Willy Lee]

I am trying to write a press release for a last-minute plan our business has, offering $1 off a pound of coffee if you bring in proof that you voted.

However I am not a great writer! I would love to include a quote on the importance/significance of voting. Or, if you can point me to a web site with some good essays on what it means to vote it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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[Willy Lee]

3. Excellent...

Thank you!

[Warpy]

5. I'd add the following

People who are unwilling to vote for the lesser of two evils will invariably find themsleves getting the greater evil.

No clue what famous person said it.

[Rjnerd]

2. Not a serious response

But my standard quip, is that if you didn't vote, you don't get to bitch.

[Willy Lee]

4. Or in other words..

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
* Louis L'Amour

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

6. "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
George Jean Nathan

[Willy Lee]

7. Here are some quotes I have found-

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
A. d. Benoist

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
Abbie Hoffman

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
Adam Michnik

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.
Alastair Farrugia


The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
(I really like this one!)

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois


If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle