Election

"Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
        --Ambrose Bierce

"An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods."
        --Ambrose Bierce

"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
        --David Broder

"To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object acnnot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil."
        --Edmund Burke

"I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box."
        --Thomas Jefferson

"The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well."
        --Alan Keyes

"Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections."
        --Abraham Lincoln

"American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society."
        --Thomas Macaulay, British historian

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
        --H.L. Mencken

"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, The Orlando Sentinel, 11/03/98

"Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials."
        --Will Rogers

"I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you."
        --Will Rogers

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
        --George Bernard Shaw

"The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything."
        --Josef Stalin