Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinne

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Art)

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Government
category

If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? – Paul Harvey

Category:
Government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

Category:
Government

Ive got the greatest job in the world. Theres no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different peoples lives. Its a great challenge. – Michael Bloomberg

Category:
Government

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

[O]ne moon lights a thousand forevers… – Meng Chiao

Category:
Night

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Happiness

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but Id be happy not to do them if there are better roles. – Channing Tatum

Category:
Hope

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. – William Dunbar

Category:
Romantic