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To: TonyInOhio
A lady [Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia] asked Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin "Well, Doctor. What have we got, a Republic or a Monarchy?". "A Republic", replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."-

Sounds like nobody has listened to this warning by Benjamin Franklin...

28 posted on 12/13/2012 9:14:14 AM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: ExSoldier
..."A Republic", replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

Sounds like nobody has listened to this warning by Benjamin Franklin...

That's pretty good, but IMHO, no match for...

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." and "it would end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

45 posted on 12/13/2012 11:58:12 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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