Quotes

One of the best quotes I've read in a long time
Alexander F. Tyler stated: ' A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the treasury with the result that democracies always collapse over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.' Sound like what's going on today? Oh yeah.

Here is a link to a great essay on the differences between a democracy (which the US is NOT) and a republic (which the US is).