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A Democracy Cannot Exist As A Permanent Form Of Government.
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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 Tyler, eighteenth-century Scottish historian
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