Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders  itself. 
There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.  
 (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27459.html)  
(http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=27459)  
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27459.html#email) 
John  Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
 
 
In a message dated 9/17/2008 2:03:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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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
I remember reading it in book about the origins of the  constitution and now 
can't find the book or remember the title, or the person  quoted.
Old is not good for the memory.
Harris  Kern

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