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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"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
> 
> 
> 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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