A democracy is always temporary in nature

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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• 历史上没有因民主而自我败亡的国家，因独裁而败亡的倒是无数。 -大号蚂蚁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 22:03:53

• Athenian democracy :) -career- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 23:29:49

• 这是因为你太无知了 -laborlaw- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/12/2014 postreply 05:17:46

• 没有那么悲观，民主的权力来自人民，因此前途也取决于人民的整体素质。 -edison11- ♂ (585 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 22:32:43

• 你东部和加州人口不一样，问题也不一样 -firefly18- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 23:17:50

• 加州给民主党这么糟蹋下去，结果可想而知。 -知人知面- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/12/2014 postreply 05:29:54

• 人的理性: greed and fear :) -career- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 23:32:24

• 那是本能，不是理性。 -edison11- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 23:36:05

• 理性=本能eventually. See Freud vs Einstein on "Why War?" -career- ♂ (73 bytes) () 05/12/2014 postreply 00:10:52

• 我们的运气不错，见到了民主制最昌盛的时候。 -mapell22- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 22:35:31

• More importantly in here, Kids的运气? -career- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 23:36:19

• 还管的了那么多。人类将来往哪儿发展都不知道。 -mapell22- ♀ (64 bytes) () 05/12/2014 postreply 05:23:44

• 你自己写的，还是别人的？ -firefly18- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2014 postreply 23:19:24

• 古罗马帝国的崩溃在于道德败坏 -insight777- ♂ (7964 bytes) () 05/12/2014 postreply 02:29:13