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Originally Posted by u-Bob
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." -- Benjamin Franklin.
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You don't have the whole quote there. It actually reads:
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. "
He also has said :"Where liberty dwells, there is my country. "
So you might say democracy is a group of people voting for something. Liberty is a single person telling the masses that they won't stand for that. It seems that maybe Franklin wants to live where there are people standing up to the masses and demanding to be heard.
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"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." -- Benjamin Franklin
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." --Thomas Jefferson from The Declaration of Independence.
If we are to believe this document, the document that the foundation of this country started with, we are all created equal and all are allowed to purse life, liberty and happiness.
If a group of people decides they want to take away my right to pursuing happiness and liberty I should be allowed to stand up and fight back. Our legal system is in place to help oversee such fights. The masses in California decided that they didn't want gay people to be able to marry. The gay people are fighting back and the legal system is deciding who is right here.
Are the gay people who want the ability to get married not the well armed lamb?