By Anna Von Reitz
"....Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It
can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of
the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the
candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result
that Democracy
always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a
Dictatorship."
(Written by
Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen
original states were still colonies of Great Britain. At the time he was writing
of the decline and fall of the Athenian
Republic over two thousand years before.)
A friend recently sent me this quote and it is a timely reminder
that I share with all of you. I have read it many times over the years and the
truth resonates across centuries and down to this current moment.
