A friend sent me this email and I want to share it with all my friends and readers.
When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequences: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.”
Alexander Tyler
My question to us all is — Are we going to let this happen to the United States of America? My hope is that we have broken the bonds of apathy with the number of people who voted in this election. Yet did they vote only for the candidate who promised “the most money from the public treasury?” If so, we need to be ever vigilant so we do not become dependent and, as history has so often recorded, revert back to governmental bondage.
