Hyperbole - an extravagant exaggeration! This once great Republic might do itself well to revert an elementary role
of doing only the business of minting coin and maintaining a navy -- and do that from a place so remote in Kansas
that not even "Auntie Emmm" could find her way home. - W. R. Waddell, Jr.

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From: "Melinda Skinner" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Help with a quote


"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin

--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
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
>
>
> 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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