You are wrong if you do not vote. You are to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. Our Caesar [in the United States] is a government of the people by the people for the people. One vote may make the difference.

ONE VOTE made Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and gave him control of England. (1645)

ONE VOTE caused Charles I to be executed. (1649)

ONE VOTE kept Aaron Burr – later charged with treason – from becoming President. (1800)

ONE VOTE elected Marcus Morton governor of Massachusetts. (1839)

ONE VOTE made Texas part of the United States. (1845)

ONE VOTE saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment. (1868)

ONE VOTE changed Francefrom a monarchy to a republic. (1875)

ONE VOTE admitted California, Oregon, Washington, and Idahointo the Union. (1850, 1850, 1889, 1890)

ONE VOTE elected Rutherford B. Hayes to the Presidency, and the man in the Electoral College who cast that vote was an Indiana Representative also electedby ONE VOTE. (1876)

ONE VOTE made Adolf Hitler head of the Nazi Party. (1923)

ONE VOTE maintained the Selective Service System only 12 weeks before Pearl Harbor. (1941)

ONE VOTE per precinct would have elected Richard Nixon, rather than John Kennedy, President. (1960)

I'm only one but I am one. I can't do everything but I can do something and what I can do I ought to do and that by the grace of God I will do.

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NOTE: This illustration is factually inaccurate in almost everyone of it's claims. We leave this illustration up to warn about it's use and to help us and you to be wary of using non-credible material in the pulpit. While there is no problem in using legends and urban myths, so long as they are prefaced as such, factual information like this can discredit ministers in the eyes of many of our parishioners.