只有中國共產黨可以救地球 ！

  （ 這是在《流浪地球》中

      已然得到充分證明的普世真理；

      亦可以捎帶拯救戰火紛飛 硝煙瀰漫

      兵荒馬亂 災難深重中的755萬香港受苦人民 ）：

    十四年之前 

    意識形態大外宣的輝煌勝利（？）

    —— 趙莉 / 趙麗同志與美國老公 

    亦或 美國老公與趙莉 / 趙麗同志

    聯袂偽造

    美利堅合眾國第三任總統（1801年─1809年）；

    同時也是《美國獨立宣言》主要起草人

    及美國開國元勛中最具影響力者之一

    托馬斯·傑斐遜（ Thomas Jefferson，

    1743年4月13日－1826年7月4日 ）

    的一段言論 ？

http://blog.creaders.net/u/6177/201910/358619.html

Variations:

1. "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49."

2. "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."

Sources consulted: Searching on the phrase "mob rule"

1. Monticello website

2. Ford's Works of Thomas Jefferson

3. UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government, Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection

4. Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress

5. Retirement Papers

6. Quotable Jefferson

7. Bartleby.com: Quotations

Earliest known appearance in print: 2004[1][2]

Other attributions: None known.

Status: We currently have no evidence to confirm that Thomas Jefferson ever said or wrote, "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%" or any of its listed variations. We do not know the source of this statement's attribution to Thomas Jefferson.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Ken Schoolland, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (Cape Town, South Africa: Leap Publishing, 2004), 235. PDF version available online.

2. ↑ To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrase, "democracy is nothing more than mob rule": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.

FURTHER SOURCES

• UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government. "Majority Rule." http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0500.htm

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https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/democracy-nothing-more-mob-rulespurious-quotation#_note-0

 如上所述，這一句“名言”，最早出現在這本書裡：

      這位是本書作者 Ken Schoolland

這是作者與夫人趙莉 / 趙麗同志合影

Li Zhao Schoolland is the Founder of TFT Events which has organized successful Austrian Economics Conferences and Summer camps since 2010 in China, Slovakia, Romania, Indonesia, and Morocco.  She is a columnist writing a weekly column in China on child-rearing and has given talks about individual liberty at numerous international conferences and summer camps in Mongolia, China, USA, Ukraine, Japan, Malaysia, India, and the Republic of Georgia.  Through TFT Events, Li has arranged for the Chinese translation and publication of works by Jesus Huerta de Soto, Michael Oliver, Doug Casey, Ken Schoolland, The Acton Institute, and Jeffrey Tucker.

Li was a high school and university teacher for many years in Hawaii, Minnesota, and China.  She served as the youth director of Chinese Lutheran Church of Honolulu and was the manager of several businesses in China and Hawaii.  She  has two masters degrees: one in Japanese Business Studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu and one in Japanese Literature from the University of Minnesota.  Li is fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and English.

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