"Those who stay away from the election..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.”

“Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.”

“England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.”

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

“I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.”

“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.”

“I don't vote. I don't do no voting.”