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Here's something to think about!
Subject: How Long Do We Have?
How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution,
in
1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University
of
Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years prior:
"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 that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority always votes 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 worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning
of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these
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
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minn. points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential
election:
Population of counties won by Al Gore: 127 million - Bush: 143
million
Square miles of land won by Gore: 580,000 - Bush: 2,427,000
States won by Gore: 19 - Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2 -
Bush:
2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won
was mostly the land owned by the tax paying citizens of this great
country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government owned tenements and living off government welfare."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already
having
reached the "governmental dependence" phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
P.S. #9 If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million
criminal invaders called illegal aliens and they vote, then goodbye USA
in less than 5 years.
Subject: How Long Do We Have?
How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution,
in
1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University
of
Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years prior:
"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 that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority always votes 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 worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning
of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these
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
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minn. points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential
election:
Population of counties won by Al Gore: 127 million - Bush: 143
million
Square miles of land won by Gore: 580,000 - Bush: 2,427,000
States won by Gore: 19 - Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2 -
Bush:
2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won
was mostly the land owned by the tax paying citizens of this great
country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government owned tenements and living off government welfare."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already
having
reached the "governmental dependence" phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
P.S. #9 If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million
criminal invaders called illegal aliens and they vote, then goodbye USA
in less than 5 years.
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Shouldn't this be in politics?[}:)]
Of course. What's your point?
Clouder..
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized<BR>nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police<BR>more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" --<BR>Adolph Hitler, 1933<BR>
Though it turns out I was wrong on this one. Hitler never said it.
----John Stuart Mill
I forget who said this, but here is another one:<P>"Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it."<P>
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"History is bunk." Henry Ford
jimdeere
--FrancF 1979
Quote from Mr. Tim Jackson. My 11th grade history teacher.
larry flint
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper
larry flint
One of the ultimate oxymorons of all time. Exactly what did he presume majority rule to mean?
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper
larry flint
One of the ultimate oxymorons of all time. Exactly what did he presume majority rule to mean?
not in 2008, minority rules now {lol}
Sheriff Hank Pearson
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Adams
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. John Adams
fits Any Politician these days
This describes us pretty well...
A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security. Samuel Adams
Attributed to Ben Franklin
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
The only job You get where You start at the top is digging a hole.
"It is not about how you do it, it is about doing it".
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