Not election time yet, but something to think about while waiting.

“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
-Ambrose Bierce

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”
-Thomas Sowell

“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom”
-Friedrich August Hayek

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
-George Jean Nathan

"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."
-Kin Hubbard

"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"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."
-Marian Wright Edelman

"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you.
Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."
- Bernard Levin

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
-Abraham Lincoln

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal--that you can gather votes like box tops--is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
-Adlai Stevenson