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To: TomGuy

Thank God that I’ll be dead by the time they pull it off. At least I hope so.

As Ben Franklin said, “it’s a democracy, IF you can keep it.”


23 posted on 09/16/2012 6:08:13 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Democrats: The law of unintended consequences in action.)
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To: Morgan in Denver

Now Morgan, he did not say that.

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)

QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Big difference between a Democracy (mob rule) and a Republic (majority and minority rights; no aristocracy), but I’ll bet you know that!


134 posted on 09/16/2012 7:24:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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