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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 largess of the public treasury. From that time on 
the majority always votes for the candidates promising the 
most benefits from the public treasury, with the results 
that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, 
always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's 
great 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;from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;from dependency back again to bondage. 
--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
 
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to 
trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - 
and both commonly succeed, are right 
--H. L. Mencken 

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master 
This expresses my idea of democracy. 
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions 
in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'. 
--Bruce Bartlett 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. 
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! 
--Benjamin Franklin 

The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and 
individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise 
of protecting rights for all 
--Amnesty International, 19 Jan 2001 

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. 
It must be business as usual 
--Margaret Thatcher