A democracy cannot exist as a ...

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
 Alexander Fraser Tytler

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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 Winston Churchill
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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 Mahatma Gandhi
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
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 Benjamin Franklin

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The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following 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 to bondage.
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 Alexander Fraser Tytler