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As We're Temporarily (I hope) on Politics

Posted By: Bill Riles
Date: Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:38 p.m.

This was written in the late 1700's by Alexander Tyler. It is amazingly prescient. As more than 50% of citizens pay no federal income taxes, where do YOU think we are in the cycle?

"Cycle of Democracy"

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them 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. These nations have progressed through this 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 apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage."

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