"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, August 29, 1763
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.44E6
"Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease." -Menander (342 BC-292 BC)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Menander.Quote.44CF
"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector." -Plato (429-347 BC) Source: The Republic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Plato.Quote.3065
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