A democracy cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that
they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits
from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over
loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the
world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The
people go from bondage to spiritual truth, 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
dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
~ attributed to Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler.
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