How Long Do We Have???
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new Constitution in 1787, Alexander
Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of
the Atheanian Republic some 2,000 years earlier.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.” “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that the voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”
“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapses due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been
about 200 years”
“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequences:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence; “ (Here is where I believe we are!!)
8. from dependence back to bondage”
Supplied by Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.
IF WE OUT VOTE THE FOOLS
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.” “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that the voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”
“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapses due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been
about 200 years”
“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequences:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence; “ (Here is where I believe we are!!)
8. from dependence back to bondage”
Supplied by Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.
WE THE PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THIS COURSE:
IF WE OUT VOTE THE FOOLS
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