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QotD

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-11-02 under ,

Mrs. Powel, catching Benjamin Franklin leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: "Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

Benjamin Franklin: "A republic, if you can keep it."

(See note at Bartleby.com regarding reliability of this quotation.)

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