"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury."

-- Alexander Fraser Tytler

#Freedom Quotes #Government Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”
“Even if I played for a million years, Iâ€™d never come close to Maradona. Not that Iâ€™d want to anyway. Heâ€™s the greatest thereâ€™s ever been.”
“Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”

Source : "The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, (p. 135), 1999.
“I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.”
“How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.”
“God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.”
“Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.”
“There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.”

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