Next is faith in God. Then with faith, men acquire courage. Courage inevitably leads to liberty. Liberty generates abundance the top of the arch. Every democracy which achieved abundance moved toward selfishness, the sixth step.
Selfishness creates complacency.
Complacency degenerates into apathy. Apathy breeds dependency, the handout stage. And then back again to bondage. The history of every recorded democracy, from bondage to bondage, in ten fateful steps. Free enterprise is the core of our great nation, the longest running democracy in history.