- When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England,
Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic
over two thousand years previous to that time:
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- A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves
money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always
votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury,
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy
followed by a dictatorship.
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- The average age of the world's great civilizations has
been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following
sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great
courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance
to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
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