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To: LA Woman3

I’m looking for the source of the quote paraphrased as: “When the people find they can get their hand in the till (treasury) then Democracy will fail.”

I think they’ve found out.

Anybody know the source? And the original words.


21 posted on 11/16/2008 7:29:16 AM PST by RoadTest ('this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God')
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To: RoadTest
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

Benjamin Franklin


54 posted on 11/16/2008 10:57:59 AM PST by Cooter
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