The bullet we didn't buy.
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To: TASMANIANRED
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. "
(Sir Alex Fraser Tytler) (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
68 posted on
11/03/2004 7:48:16 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(The cool points are out the window and you got me all twisted up in the game)
To: TASMANIANRED
???? ..Isn't this a apt description of Eastern Canada/France/Quebec today. ...just asking.
74 posted on
11/03/2004 8:25:55 PM PST by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: TASMANIANRED
Read the science fiction novel "Fallen Angles". It gives a dramatic insight into such an "America".
93 posted on
11/04/2004 4:04:15 AM PST by
Redleg Duke
(Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
To: TASMANIANRED
Thank God. We're "safe" for four more years.
104 posted on
11/04/2004 9:56:12 AM PST by
TheSpottedOwl
("In the Kingdom of the Deluded, the Most Outrageous Liar is King".)
To: TASMANIANRED
the Republic gets a stay; but is still on death row.
106 posted on
11/04/2004 11:40:05 AM PST by
Chuckster
(Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset)
To: TASMANIANRED
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