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Definition of a Stupid Frog:
It is common knowledge that a frog will not allow itself to
be boiled intentionally. If you throw a frog into a pot of
boiling water, it will jump out. On the other hand, if you throw a
frog into a pot of cold water, then slowly turn up the heat, it will boil
and die! A stupid frog is one that allows itself to slowly boil or in
the case of Americans losing their freedoms, slowly become a subject of the
ever increasing power of the government.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves
largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the
public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over
loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age
of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual
truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to
abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to
complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from
dependence back again to bondage.
(Often attributed to Scottish historian, Sir
Alexander Frasier Tytler, Circa 1801)
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