By: Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler Taken from: Freeman Magazine
A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only
exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of
the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the
candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the
result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always
to be followed by a Dictatorship.
(Written by Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, over two centuries ago while
our thirteen original states were still colonies of Great Britain. At the
time he was writing of the decline and fall of the Athenian Republic over
two thousand years before.)
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