"And so the probable outcome of too much freedom is only too much slavery in the individual and the state. Probably, then, tyranny develops out of no other constitution than democracy—from the height o…"

"Let him who would move the world first move himself."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."