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The Fall Of A Republic
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:
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.
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.
Alexander Tyler
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