Inspirational Quotes to Get You Excited About Voting

We all hear that voting is important, but it can be easy to feel discouraged and forget the true significance of your participation in elections.

Voting is essential because it pushes a country’s democracy to function in a fair and equal way. The whole point of a democracy is to ensure that everyone has their chance to elect a candidate and vote for policies that represent and benefit their communities.

Looking for the perfect voting quote or “I voted!” quote for your social media feed? Just check out the wise words of celebrities, writers and politicians for election quotes.

• Every election is determined by the people who show up. - Larry J. Sabato
• We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. – Thomas Jefferson
• We have the power to make a difference. But we need to VOTE. - Kylie Jenner

• Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender. - Keith Ellison
• The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. - Louis Brandeis

• Voting is the only way to ensure that your concerns matter. Period. - Michelle Obama
• Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Voting is not only our right—it is our power. - Loung Ung

• Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls. - Peggy Noonan
• Democracy is based upon the conviction there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
• The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have. - John Lewis

• The first duty of a man is to think for himself. - Jose Marti
• Talk is cheap, voting is free; take it to the polls. - Nanette L. Avery
• A man without a vote is a man without protection. - Lyndon B. Johnson
• Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent. ― Joseph J. Haeggquist
• There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters. - Barack Obama
• If we don’t vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future. - Pat Michell
• If you don’t vote, you lose the right to complain. - George Carlin

• Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don’t vote. - George Jean Nathan
• You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that's the way we move forward. - Michelle Obama
• The freedom to vote is the freedom that unlocks all others. - Kamala Harris
• Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one. - Monica Crowley

• By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions. - Jens Stoltenberg
• The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. - John F. Kennedy
• We can all agree on the importance of voting. - Jenna Bush
• Voting gives us an opportunity to choose from options that were chosen for us. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• Elections belong to the people. - Abraham Lincoln
• The ballot is stronger than the bullet. - Abraham Lincoln
• Somewhere inside of all of us is the power to change the world. - Roald Dahl

• Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country, and this world. - Sharon Salzberg
• You wouldn't let your grandparents pick your playlist. Why would you let them pick your representative who's going to determine your future? - Barack Obama
• This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies. - Lyndon B. Johnson