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To: RayBob
Also attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)... who knows... in any event, the quote has been around since the 1950s and is still very true.

Neal Boortz used to have this quote on his website years ago. He also said not to believe anything unless you personally verified it. I checked with the National Museum of Scotland and exchanged emails with the custodian of the Tytler collected works. He said it sounded more like a 20th century rant.

If you do a search for this quote the only place you will ever find it is on Conservative websites and blogs, never a link to a genuine passage from any speech or book by any author anywhere. It's bogus.

27 posted on 11/07/2012 12:13:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom; Uncle Chip; Sherman Logan; Trailerpark Badass
>>Also attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)... who knows... in any event, the quote has been around since the 1950s and is still very true.>>

>Neal Boortz used to have this quote on his website years ago. He also said not to believe anything unless you personally verified it. I checked with the National Museum of Scotland and exchanged emails with the custodian of the Tytler collected works. He said it sounded more like a 20th century rant.

If you do a search for this quote the only place you will ever find it is on Conservative websites and blogs, never a link to a genuine passage from any speech or book by any author anywhere. It's bogus.<

I agree with checking things out, and tell those who send me the often bogus emails, which carelessness makes us look bad. For those who do not known, in browsers like Firefox you can select (highlight) the text in a web page you can to search, then right click and chose "Search..."

WikieQuote states

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[edit] Misattributed

This quote sometimes appears joined with the above one, most notably as part of a longer piece which began circulating on the Internet shortly after the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election[5]:

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.


30 posted on 11/07/2012 12:43:26 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
i just did a quick look in both editions of Democracy In America, but the sentiment is pretty closely aligned with several themes therein.
37 posted on 11/07/2012 1:39:44 PM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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