Quotes: Alexis de Tocqueville

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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 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 loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

Bye, bye, USA

[Dori]

Wasn't it Thomas Jefforson who said...."It's a Republic, if you can keep it" ?

[DefiantSix]

Wasn't it Thomas Jefforson who said...."It's a Republic, if you can keep it" ?

Actually, that was Franklin.

[USA4ME]

And Alexis de Tocqueville was a classic liberal.  In fact if you read his beliefs, you'll find a lot of things that we as conservatives uphold were things the classic liberal also upheld.

To the primitives, Alexis de Tocqueville is a fascist.  My, how far the modern-day liberals have fallen.

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[USA4ME]

Rec'd via email:

QUOTE FROM CZECH PAPER
 
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper, "Prager Zeitungon".

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."

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[Big Dog]

Thanks. de Tocqueville is on my "meditations" reading list for this month.