Quinta, 1 de Julho, 2004

  Pensamento para o dia

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government," wrote Tyler. "It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. 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."

Scottish Professor Alexander Tyler, writing more than 200 years ago, on the fall of the Athenian republic. Via Causa Liberal