3. The Cycle of the Body Politic Great Nations rise and fall, a free people awakens to find themselves in Bondage, the people then go from bondage to spiritual truth and great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy from apathy to dependence and from dependence back again in to bondage. Benjamin Disraeli Abundance Great Courage Liberty Selfishness Complacency Apathy Dependence Bondage Spiritual Truth