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Subject:	Re: Help with a quote
From:	Don Zochert <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:47:11 -0500
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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


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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