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The Impermanence Of ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010 (message contributor)
The Impermanence of Democracy
About 200 years ago, as the United States was beginning its experiment, Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote: “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 about 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 apathy;from apathy to dependence; from dependence back again to bondage” (Quoted in Torch, Cedarville University, Spring 2009, 8.)
From a sermon by Glenn Durham, The Beginning of… Genesis, 4/10/2010
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