主题：港人每年点蜡烛，终于要把当年的阴魂招到自己家门口了。 -- 米爹
我曾经在自己的文章中引用过这句话。后来要再次引用这句话前进行了一次考据，发现了相关的讨论。现将相关讨论摘录于下，以资参考。
The word "lunch" wasn't popular until about the 1820s and would not have been said by Franklin. Wikipedia discusses that the quote is bogus and doesn't appear until 1994!
A colleague today found it in the Los Angeles Times, January 12, 1992:
"Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority."
James Bovard is sometimes credited for the phrase, and he did use it in the Washington Times, August 29, 1992:
"The USDA's concept of democracy reminds one of the old joke: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Why should the government give some farmers the power to vote to destroy other farmers' property rights?"
Perhaps two wolves and a lamb beats "three men in a room," but I dunno.
有可能是原创者托本杰明·富兰克林之名也未可知。
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🙂真正的民主，是两头狼和一只羊，投票决定谁来当午餐。 1 金陵集庆道 字58 2014-10-23 20:47:45
🙂呵呵，这句话是某位西方智者说滴。 米爹 字36 2014-10-23 21:15:21
🙂香港有什么资格全民公决？把中央当什么了？ 草春200 字0 2014-10-23 18:56:29
🙂没有幽默感 1 testjhy 字0 2014-10-23 19:15:10
🙂老实讲，偶的心态就是，瞧热闹儿不嫌事儿大…… ErgoSum 字0 2014-10-23 11:23:47
