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Quotes About Responsibility

Voting is a civic sacrament, which should not be exercised carelessly.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
The right to vote has and always will remain the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. We must, each and every one of us, continue to protect this sacred right and ensure everyone is afforded the opportunity to vote.
~ John Lewis
How is it possible that a woman who is unfit to vote should be the mother of, and bring up, a man who is?
~ Carrie Chapman Catt, 1877
Vote! It's your superpower.
~ Author Unknown
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driving license age than at voting age.
~ Marshall McLuhan, 1964
VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
~ Ambrose Bierce, 1906
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this — no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
No one has a sorrier lot than the weatherman. He is ignored when he is right, but execrated when he is wrong.
~ Isaac Asimov
A man in words and not in deeds, Is like a Garden full of weeds.
~ James Howell's Proverbs, 1660
A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds; And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden full of snow...
~ Nursery Rhyme
They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
~ William Shakespeare
Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man.
~ Japanese Proverb
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.
~ Terri Guillemets
He who drinks a fifth on the fourth may not be able to go forth on the fifth.
~ Internet meme
Vote like your rights depend on it — they do.
~ Author Unknown
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
~ George Jean Nathan, unverified
The right to vote is the fundamental citizenship right that protects all other rights.
~ Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., 2005
Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.
~ Author Unknown
Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.
~ Michelle Obama, 2012
Not voting is not a protest — it is a surrender.
~ Keith Ellison, 2016
Your vote is your voice.
~ Author Unknown
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
~ James Freeman Clarke
If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain.
~ George Carlin, unverified
Vote like you understand that someone died for your right to do so.
~ Author Unknown