Democracy is temporary?
Bill Crigger
Career Strategist, Human Resource Generalist and President, Compass Career Management Solutions, LLC
A friend sent this to me and two days later, it was in the newspaper....
Interesting.
Scottish historian Alexander Tytler wrote in 1787:
"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 voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse 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, these nations always 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 complacency;
- From complacency to apathy;
- From apathy to dependence;
- From dependence back into bondage”
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8 年Loren Collins, author of "Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation" has an article on the actual documentable origins of this quotation at: https://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html In any case, I think it's interesting that although Tytler was apparently a product of the Scottish Enlightenment period, he never actually experienced democracy, living rather, under a constitutional monarchy. What newspaper did you recently see this in?