Great article! I’ve bookmarked it for future reference.
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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 from the
public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has
been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, 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 dependence, from
dependence back again to bondage. “
-Author Unknown
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor ? he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C
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“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
� Joseph Stalin “
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********** “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” ~Barry Goldwater ********** “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” ~John Adams ********** “The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.” ~JFK ********** “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” ~Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain” ********** “Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.” ~Richard M. Nixon **********
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
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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 from the
public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has
been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, 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 dependence, from
dependence back again to bondage. “
-Author Unknown
*****
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor ? he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C
*****
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
� Joseph Stalin “
*****
******************************************
********** “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” ~Barry Goldwater ********** “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” ~John Adams ********** “The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.” ~JFK ********** “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” ~Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain” ********** “Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.” ~Richard M. Nixon **********
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
http://www.network54.com/Forum/578302/
—
**********
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~ BUT WHO’s COUNTING!
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