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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb, contesting the vote!
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I'm kinda partial to Mr. Hilter and Mr. Bimmler running for office. Also liked the re-enactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor.
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I'm kinda partial to Mr. Hilter and Mr. Bimmler running for office. Also liked the re-enactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor.
"...und I vass not head of Geshtapo for 9 nine years-I make joke"
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"Glory exists only when there is danger...peace is a word devoid of meaning...it is a glorious peace that we need." Napoleon
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Was that Napoleon?
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
* Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
o Widely attributed to Franklin on the internet, sometimes without the second sentence. It is not found in any of his known writings, and the word "lunch" is not known to have appeared anywhere in english literature until the 1820s, decades after his death. The phrasing itself has a very modern tone and the second sentence especially might not even be as old as the internet. Some of these observations are made in response to a query at Google Answers.
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+ A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
# Gary Strand, Usenet group sci.environment, 23 April 1990. [6]
+ Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
# Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992:[7]
+ Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
# James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), ISBN 0312123337, p. 333
# Also cited as by Bovard in the Sacramento Bee (1994)
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Indeed, so long as it was not his blood that was shed to obtain it.