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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359984" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Hundred Years And Falling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves excessive gratuities from the public treasury. <br>From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the treasury, with the result that a democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Professor Alexander Tyler <br>The Fall of the Athenian Republic) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The world's greatest civilizations <br>On average lasted two hundred years. <br>The Assyrians, Greeks and Babylonians, <br>Destroyed and fallen, have disappeared. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even that great Roman Empire, <br>That mighty conqueror of the West <br>Fell from its grandeur, state so dire- <br>Only its ruin can to its name attest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consider this then, the time of the States <br>It is now more than two hundred years <br>The signs of falling no one negates, <br>History repeated, that is what we fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From bondage to faith of Puritans, <br>From faith to courage of the pilgrims, <br>To strength, liberty and abundance, <br>To leisure, to apathy, and weakness grim. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The final stage is dependency, <br>That is where the nation is right now. <br>Repeating the cycle from history, <br>Tall Uncle Sam is now ready to bow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rising again is an urgency <br>There is need to rebuild the foundations <br>Strong faith in God and integrity, <br>Discipline, work, and determination. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sown in the hearts, nurtured in homes, <br>For these building blocks are eternal <br>Inward change and determined reform, <br>Firm and honest spiritual revival.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>.............................................. .............................................<br> Written March 29,2009<br>Philippines</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cynthia+Buhain-Baello">Cynthia Buhain-Baello</a><div class=q>
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