[PapaNew]

"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 to bondage."

-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Every 200-year-old republic is entitled to at least one patriot-dictator. WilliamofCarmichael

If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!