[Congressman Billybob]

This Tyler stuff is a fraud. There is no source for the preliminary comments in this article. Sounds good, might be correct, has no source.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Snow, Ice, and Lame Tom"

A Freeper in Congress? Please act now.

[ImpBill]

Only posted an email I received. Had never heard of the Scottish Professor before.

I will do some research, as I, once again "believe", Benjamin Franklin said words to the same effect at the signing of either the Declaration of Independence or Constitution.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/men/tytler_alexander.htm

More at above URL!

Significant Scots
Alexander Fraser Tytler

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TYTLER, ALEXANDER FRASER, usually styled Lord Woodhouselee, was born in Edinburgh, on the 15th of October, 1747. He was the eldest son of William Tytler, esquire of Woodhouselee, by his wife, Anne Craig. The earlier rudiments of education he received from his father at home; but in the eighth year of his age, he was sent to the High School, then under the direction of Mr Mathison. At this seminary, young Tytler remained for five years, distinguishing himself at once by the lively frankness of his manners, and by the industry and ability with which he applied himself to, and pursued his studies. The latter procured him the highest honours of the academy; and, finally, in the last year of his course, obtained for him the dignity of dux of the rector’s class.

[Sudetenland]

Dead on CB. It sounds good, but there are no bona fides for Tytler having ever said it. The closest is Juvenal's "panem et circenses."

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!from Satires

It says the same thing basically.

[MosesKnows]

This Tyler stuff is a fraud. There is no source for the preliminary comments in this article

One can question the messenger but it is folly to question the message.

This has a source and is basically the same observation.

"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the Republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.”

Teddy Roosevelt on the Fall of the Republic