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The attribution to Tytler is apparently incorrect: see www.snopes.com. A
quote like Franklin's is probably the real source. I've read something
similar in Acton, I think.
Sam Treynor
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Help with a quote
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the
end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
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From: Don Zochert <[log in to unmask]>
> > 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
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>
> 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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