Quotes of: Ballot-box Keyword

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

Pete Coors

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Lysander Spooner

I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.

Bert Blyleven

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

John Mayer

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

Susan B. Anthony

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

Carl Lewis

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Cory Doctorow

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

Al Franken

I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell ...

George Foreman

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Lord Salisbury

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

Catherine Helen Spence

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Jesse Ventura

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

Andrew Cuomo

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

Wavy Gravy

'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.

Tina Brown

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

Holt McCallany

If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Ryan Lilly

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

Benazir Bhutto