> Can someone help me with the origination of a quote that goes
> something
> like:
> Democracy ends when the people realize they can vote themselves all
> the money
Mr. Kern,
Perhaps Alexander Fraser Tytler, _The Decline and Fall of the Athenian
Republic_ (1776): "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can
vote themselves largesse from the public treasury..." Google him.
Donald Zochert
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