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Iraq&Roll
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
T. Jefferson
Upon exiting the Constitutional Convention. Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman, "What kind of government have you given us?" Franklin responded with one of the most famous quotations in history, "A Republic if you can keep it."
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Last edited by BAMF; Dec 27, 2009 at 05:35 PM.