A Warning to Democracy
Enviado por Craig (462 Lecturas)
A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler, circa 1787, Re: The Fall of the Athenian Republic.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
All Pictures in this site are the property of The Fergusons.
The comments are property of their posters.
Interactive software released under GNU GPL,
Code Credits,
Privacy Policy
Opciones de Miembros
Web
