Wake up! Democracy IS Socialism, Dummy!
Our Founding Fathers did not form a democracy and for very good reason. As Thomas Jefferson explained, Democracy is mob rule, wherein 51% of the people can vote to take away the rights of the other 49%. When 51% of Americans no longer pay income taxes, guess how they will vote and where does that leave the other 49%, the taxpayers? The father of socialism, Karl Marx, told us that.......
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by JB Williams
Your source please?
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Quotation: "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."
Variations:
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49."
"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."
Sources consulted: Searching on the phrase "mob rule"
Monticello website
Ford's Works of Thomas Jefferson
UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government, Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection
Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
Retirement Papers
Quotable Jefferson
Bartleby.com: Quotations
Earliest known appearance in print: 2004[1][2]
Other attributions: None known.
Status: We currently have no evidence to confirm that Thomas Jefferson ever said or wrote, "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%" or any of its listed variations. We do not know the source of this statement's attribution to Thomas Jefferson.
Footnotes
↑ Ken Schoolland, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (Cape Town, South Africa: Leap Publishing, 2004), 235. PDF version available online.
↑ To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrase, "democracy is nothing more than mob rule": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.
Further Sources
UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government. "Majority Rule." http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0500.htm
Auntie, My source is/are the statements of our Founding Fathers! When asked what form of government was the USA to live by Benjamin Franklin replied, " A REPUBLIC if you can keep it."
ReplyDeleteI really find your request for a "source' to be a bit inane on its face! We are (supposedly) a nation of Laws, but Obama has chosen to see otherwise! Pastor Lee
Auntie, If you have ever recited the Pledge of Allegiance you have affirmed , To the Republic for which it stands..." Nuff said...Pastor Lee
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