Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle Of Democracy (1770)
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from 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 again to bondage.Author News
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public. ... This idea and sequence is usually attributed to Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler around 1770 and some think speaks to Athenian Demiocracy. For the sake of discussion lets look past authorshipm and consider teh iudea and sequence ? we can debate who first proposed this notion some other time to a ...
Alexander Fraser Tyler, 1770. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority ...
How accurate is his prediction and where are we in the cycle? Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle Of Democracy (1770) A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote ...
The following quote is from Alexander Fraser Tyler ? (in his 1770 book, Cycle of Democracy). I have been thinking about this quote and the state of our union for many months. I do not write this article in an attacking spirit, ...
Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)