Democracy passes into despotism.
More Plato Quotes
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato
