It's neither a wake up call nor political. . . It's mostly false.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net> wrote:
> Could not have said it better thanks Tom knew that was out there and my
> thoughts exactly.. Be well smile often and keep the shiey side up wait your
> car is in primer.. LOL...
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> To: "Landspeed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:01 PM
> Subject: [Land-speed] HowLong have we Got?
>
>
> This is not political, just a wake up!
>>
>> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/FCC
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
>> permanent form of government.'
>> 'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover
>> they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
>> 'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who
>> promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that
>> every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is
>> always followed by a dictatorship.'
>> 'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning
>> of
>> history, has been about 200 years'
>> 'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the
>> following sequence:
>> 1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
>> 2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
>> 3. From courage to liberty;
>> 4. From liberty to abundance;
>> 5. From abundance to complacency;
>> 6. From complacency to apathy;
>> 7. From apathy to dependence;
>> 8. From dependence back into bondage'
>>
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