To: ImpBill
“About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier”
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp
Urban myth.
As are the stats.
4 posted on
01/19/2008 6:02:51 PM PST by
GovernmentIsTheProblem
(We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson)
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
Ok, urban myth accepted. Any thoughts about the context of the message?
23 posted on
01/19/2008 6:15:13 PM PST by
ImpBill
("America ... Where are you now?" --Greg Adams--Brownsville, TX --On the other Front Line)
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
Urban myth.
As are the stats.
Should be true, even if it isn't. I say run it on the nightly news.
31 posted on
01/19/2008 6:21:18 PM PST by
RobinOfKingston
(Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
Athens fell because of the military disaster at Syracuse, and the plague that ravaged a besieged city.
78 posted on
01/19/2008 8:14:57 PM PST by
RobbyS
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
People are addicted to Government. It seems when the democrats say ‘change’ they really mean more government, and lots of it.
106 posted on
01/20/2008 7:22:13 AM PST by
Rush4U
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