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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Timely Advice From 1787

September 30th, 2008 • Richard Cochrane

When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England,
Professor Alexander Tyler wrote (read about controversy here) about the fall of the Athenian
republic over two thousand years previous to that time as follows:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It
can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on
the majority always votes for the candidates promising the
most money from the public treasury, with the result that a
democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed
by a dictatorship.

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

1. bondage to spiritual faith,

2. spiritual faith to great courage,

3. courage to liberty,

4. liberty to abundance,

5. abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency

6. complacency to apathy,

7. apathy to dependency,

8. dependency back to bondage.

Alexander Tyler (1747 - 1813)

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  1. Comment by Jamal from Pakistan on 1 October 2008:

    I think what a nation needs is leadership it can come from democracy or in fact it can even be suppressed by democracy. If a dictator make better dicission and has feelings and takes care of the nation with responsibility it is much better than democracy.

    In today world Democracy is just an other form of dictator ship which is won by tactics lies and mischief.

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