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

-- Aristotle, "Politics"

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

-- Plato

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."

-- Thucydides, "Funeral speech for Pericles"

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