To: eeriegeno
was it Alexis deTocqueville who said "the American republic shall endure only until the masses realize they can vote themselves government largesse" (or words to that effect)?
30 posted on
02/28/2004 7:09:35 PM PST by
King Prout
(I am coming to think that the tree of liberty is presently dying of thirst.)
To: King Prout
was it Alexis deTocqueville who said "the American republic shall endure only until the masses realize they can vote themselves government largesse" (or words to that effect)? "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse 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, always followed by a dictatorship."
Alexander Tyler
37 posted on
02/28/2004 7:39:40 PM PST by
jedi
(Pre-digested opinions are so much simpler to assimilate)
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