There are numerous organizations anxious to help get citizens registered to vote and cast ballots on election day. Below are just a few nonpartisan examples.
Strong democracy requires participation and understanding from all segments of society. Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman appreciated the importance of citizen involvement in government and encouraged every eligible voter to cast his or her ballot on election day – to take an active role in their own future and the future of the country.
Participate in your freedom and exercise your right!
Register to vote.
Quotes on Voting
It is to be hoped that every eligible voter--not just the customary minority of those eligible--will go to the polls and register an opinion on what course the United States should take in the days ahead. Then, the outcome will be the decision of all America.
Harry S. Truman September 4, 1948
I hope that all of you who are entitled to vote will exercise that great privilege. When you vote, you are in control of your Government.
Harry S. Truman November 1, 1948
My purpose in this campaign has been to help make sure that when you go to the polls you have the facts about what is at stake for you, and your families and your children.
Harry S. Truman November 3, 1952
I have always believed that the American people have the good sense and good judgment to make the right decisions, once they know the facts.
Harry S. Truman November 3, 1952
If we don’t vote, then we are forfeiting one of the greatest privileges we have, of participating in the decisions of this country. I am not speaking now of how you vote. I am talking about the act itself. To be a free person to exercise that right so that you will be using your best judgment for the benefit of yourselves, your children, your country – the entire future – for the whole world, that is the thing that we must do.
Dwight D. Eisenhower November 5, 1956
Indeed, no matter how you vote, be sure you vote. Because tonight I can assure you: In all the world there is no privilege that is more priceless and more sought after than the privilege that is yours tomorrow. To keep it alive--for ourselves, for our children, for our country-for freedom: exercise it. Because, by exercising it, you will preserve it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower November 5, 1956
…each of us going into the polling booth finds himself alone with his God and his conscience. In that booth, each of us makes his own imprint on the future prosperity, security, and peace of the Republic – and of mankind
Dwight D. Eisenhower November 7, 1960
Let us remember that the right to vote was won for you in the toil and sacrifice and blood of all the fighting men of all America’s wars. You must not ignore or reject that right.
Dwight D. Eisenhower November 7, 1960
A joint project of the Eisenhower and Truman Libraries. Both presidential libraries are administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.