It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending ….

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the pu….

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 large….

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bon….

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury..