"If you love wealth more than liberty, the
tranquility of servitude better than the animating
contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask
not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick
the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest
lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you
were our countrymen." [Samuel
Adams]
"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."
-- Some have given [Alexander
Tyler] the credit for this
quote , in reference to the fall of the Athenian
Empire, but who knows. Either way, think about
it and let us know what you think!
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