The Evolution Of A Republic

When the 13 colonies were still part of England,
Professor Alexander Tyler, a Scottish historian,
wrote about the fall of the Athenian Republic over
2000 years earlier. He said:

“ A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
Government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves money from the
Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates promising the most
money from the Public Treasury, with the result that
a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy
followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
have been 200 years. These nations have progressed
through the following 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 Tyler

Where does this country stand on the evolutionary scale?


"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."

"When People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams