Pass It On!

Election Day Thoughts

When I was a kid, no election passed without my Dad saying to me, “Don’t let any election pass without voting.  People died to give you that privilege.”  Then as my wife and I raised our kids, we took them into the voting booth and allowed them to cast votes—and with no mishaps.  A democracy is always on the verge of extinction as it passes itself on to the next generation.  

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work.  Of course it doesn't work.  We are supposed to work it.  ~Alexander Woollcott

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.  Of course, that is not true.  Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.  ~Walter H. Judd

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.  ~Louis Brandeis