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* [[/misquotes]]: misquoting Jefferson appears to be a popular right-wing pastime
===Democracy is Mob Rule===
 
<blockquote>
 
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.
 
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* '''2007-08-15''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401703_pf.html Rove's 'Mob' Remark: An Age-Old Social Slur]: "The esteemed founder never said it. The folks at Monticello's research library witheringly say that old saw has been dogging him for years."
 
 
 
'''Attributions''':
 
* [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/chu6.html Bevin Chu, on LewRockwell.com]
 
* [http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_democracy_is_nothing_more_than_mob_rule-where/225983.html Thinkexist.com]
 
===Social Welfare Will Kill Democracy===
 
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
 
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I can't find a definitive statement that he did not say this, but it's not in any of the reliable collections and nobody cites a source for it.
 
 
 
'''Attributions''':
 
* [http://www.democracyisnotfreedom.com/ Democracy Is Not Freedom] (sidebar)
 
 
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