Notable Quotes - Lord Thomas MacCauley - Granite Grok

Notable Quotes – Lord Thomas MacCauley

"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship."

---Lord Thomas MacCauley
(H/T: Doug Welch, proprietor of Stix Blog ) 

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