In honor of Election Day, I offer some random quotes on voting... “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 (1908-1988) “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 (b. 1930) Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. --Wendell Berry (b. 1934) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- Andrew Lack (?) 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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter....
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