There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more 
easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. 
-- Benjamin Franklin


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Outside Independence Hall when
the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, 
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded,
"A republic, if you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin 
(1706-1790) US Founding Father 1787
Source: as recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry.
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.21EA

"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US Founding Father
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.3BC8