"A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.Form that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that Democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by Dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty;from liberty to abundance;form abundance to selfishness;form selfishness to complacency;from complacency to apathy;form apathy to dependency;form dependency back into bondage "
Textul respectiv făcea referire la căderea Republicii Ateniene, cu 2000 de ani în urmă şi e atribuit de către unii profesorului Alexander Tyler(1747-1813) (exista o dezbatere deschisa pe tema paternitatii textului in discutie)
Remarcabil, în special în contextul economic mondial actual şi cu siguranţă o temă de reflecţie pentru politicienii zilelor noastre.
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