Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
More Plato Quotes
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
