Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee was a Scottishborn

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee was a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer. Tytler wrote a treatise that is important in the history of translation theory, the Essay on the Principles of Translation. It has been argued in a 1975 book more. .

“ Alexander Fraser Tytler: The historical cycle seems to be: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; from apathy to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more. #Freedom

“ Alexander Fraser Tytler: Other variants: The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. #Nationalities and Nationalism

“ Alexander Fraser Tytler: Perhaps what he had in mind was what Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what had destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2000 years before. #Government

“ Alexander Fraser Tytler: It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox, ) virtually and substantially a monarchy. #Democracy

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