You may have heard this famous quote which is attributed to Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Here are a few variations on that theme:
- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
- Republic: The flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on dinner.
- Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed.
- Federal Government: The media deceives the sheep into voting for a Democracy.
- Freedom: Two very hungry wolves looking for dinner and finding a very well-informed and well-armed sheep.
For the record, I can find no references that show Franklin was the original source for the aforementioned quote. It appears to have come from libertarian author James Bovard. In his book Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, the quote reads, "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
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