Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

We make war that we may live in peace.