Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007. <br class="br">Context: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.”
Carl Van Doren (1885–1950) American biographer
As quoted in Building A Speech (1990) by Sheldon Metcalfe
“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Fatherlessness or Platonov, Act I, sc. xiv (1878)
“But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
Andrea Dworkin book Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000), pp. 245–246.
