With the presidential election coming up in November of this year, it is important to focus on the issues that matter most and remember the value of the vote. Every vote counts and determines the future direction of the U.S. and the world.

With that said, here are some of the best quotes from several well-known and influential figures to inspire you this election:

1. “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
   – John Quincy Adams
2. “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
   – Emma Goldman
3. “A man without a vote is a man without protection.”
   – Lyndon B. Johnson
4. “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
   – Lyndon B. Johnson
5. “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
6. “Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.”
   – Rick Mercer
7. “That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.”
   – Lou Henry Hoover
8. “Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.”
   – Hazen Pingree
9. “Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. ”
   – Thomas Jefferson
10. “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
    – Franklin D. Roosevelt

– Mayra Vega

Sources: Goodreads, Intentblog, Politico, Cafemom
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