Who said this?

[DirtRacer2014]

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote".

[brashley]

Ben Franklin

[Mittvok]

James Bovard, I think. It wasn't Ben Franklin.

[blackford]

It was... Benjamin Franklin!!

[blackford]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worthy reading,
Or do things worth the writing.

Never confuse motion with action.

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

He’s a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

What is the use of a new-born child? (When asked the use of a new invention)

...a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles...is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people mroe easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

-Ben Franklin

[ss12]

Ben Franklin was that the store Wal-Mart ran out of town?

[Bubstr]

Ben Franklin also said, "What we have given you, is a Republic, if you can keep it".

We haven't kept it and it's time to get it back.

[mudslinger47]

I recall reading about the government wanting to close the patent office in the late 1800's, there just wasn't anything else to invent, so the office was a waste..... if they could see us now...

[Mittvok]

Guys, Ben Franklin never said that. It's sometimes stated that he's the one that said that but the actual quote is "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard

People didn't use the word lunch until 1820 something. So it wasn't even around during Bens time.