"A democracy will continue to exist until the time the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler, a Scottish professor at the University of Edinburgh (observation about the fall of the Greek Republic)

Democracy

"We tend to make our Christianity too simple. Jesus was tender and stern at the same time. He was a boon companion at happy feasts, yet he wept with sympathy for his brokenhearted friends. He did not try to escape hardship by dodging it; he knew how to find strength to carry the cross without being spiritually broken by it. That is the relief we have a right to seek." - Anonymous

Christianity