Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Wisdom

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred 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 dependence; from dependency back again into bondage."

Saturday, October 25, 2008

He must have had Joe the Plumber in mind

"It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."

Thomas Sowell