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To: vannrox
Historian Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote then that “A democracy . . . can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”

Great quote, but probably apocryphal. Even the Library of Congress has been unable to locate it in any of Tytler's writings.

25 posted on 11/05/2002 6:07:45 AM PST by Nonfaction
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To: Nonfaction
Great quote, but probably apocryphal. Even the Library of Congress has been unable to locate it in any of Tytler's writings...

O.K. Try Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America, circa 1835.

97 posted on 11/05/2002 12:32:34 PM PST by Publius6961
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