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Lo Bastido 
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Fun thoughts about the "New Democracy"... "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 Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship." ..."The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic", by Alexander Fraser Tyler "Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation." -- Karl Marx, 1848 author of "The Communist Manifesto" "Democracy will envy all, endeavour to pull down all, and when by chance it happens to get the upper hand, it will be revengeful, bloody and cruel." -- President John Adams "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." -- Somerset Maugham, Author "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government," - United States Constitution, Article IV, Section 4. "The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management. Try by this, as a tally, every provision of our constitution, and see if it hangs directly on the will of the people ...". -- Thomas Jefferson in "Notes on Virginia" "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the Republic for which it stands ...." -- United States Pledge of Allegiance "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." -- James Madison "Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism." -- Fisher Ames (1758 - 180 
"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water." --William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act IV, Scene 2. |
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