universal healthcare

[Jester]

I've been looking too. It is used often, and always credited to Ben. http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/quotes/govt.html And another citation here; http://mises.org/daily/1144

Edit: Ok, attributed to Franklin in "Pearls of Wisdom", by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze(Amazon)

No lack of its use in articles (almost all from libertarians) or collections of quotables - universally without citation. This might give us some clues about when it was invented or attributed to Franklin, but it's not going to demonstrate that he said or wrote it.

How about; "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson

Works well enough, though it would be well to remember that this aphorism has a context, and that context is very different from the reality of modern government.

-Jester