Socrates — "When a democratic city athirst for liberty gets bad cupbearers for its leaders a…"

When a democratic city athirst for liberty gets bad cupbearers for its leaders and is intoxicated by drinking too deep of that unmixed wine, and then, if its so-called governors are not extremely mild and gentle with it and do not dispense the liberty unstintedly, it chastises them and accuses them of being accursed oligarchs.
Socrates — Socrates Ancient · Father of Western philosophy

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From Plato's Republic, Book 8, 562d-e, describing the excesses of democracy.

Date: ~375 BC

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