Register To Vote
Questioning whether you should vote or not. Here are some quotes from our Founding Fathers and early leaders to help you make this decision.
[S]hould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them
to rights
by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
[Thomas Jefferson, The Works of
Thomas Jefferson, Paul
Leicester Ford, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), Vol. 10, p.
245.]
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their
Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the
people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent,
brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to
represent them in the national legislature. . . . [I]f the next centennial does
not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the
enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in
controlling the political forces.
[James A. Garfield, The Works of James Abram Garfield, Burke
Hinsdale, editor (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), Vol. II, pp. 486,
489, "A Century of Congress,"
July, 1877.]
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he
is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - or at least
that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn
trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.
[Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo
Cushing, editor (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907), Vol. IV, p. 256, in the
Boston Gazette on April 16, 1781.]
