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is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system. Its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power... unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power... unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. Ayn Rand

is a remarkably shrewd strategy of those in power who create in the voter the idea that the government is theirs, that its errors are our errors, its aberrations our aberrations, that any revolt will be against ourselves.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

is, in America, possible of being deprived only by the American people themselves... by their not voting.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. Franklin D. Roosevelt

is, in itself, no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. Frank Chodorov

is a lie that leads us to believe that we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms. George Carlin

is like a rifle... its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

A vote is like a rifle... its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. Theodore Roosevelt

is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. Rutherford B. Hayes

is not about casting a strip of paper merely, but rather casting one's whole influence.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. Henry David Thoreau

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