Dialogue

 1 Repub|          never heard that forms of government differ-there are tyrannies,
 2 Repub|              Yes, I know. ~And the government is the ruling power in each
 3 Repub|         And the different forms of government make laws democratical,
 4 Repub|       which is the interest of the government; and as the government must
 5 Repub|         the government; and as the government must be supposed to have
 6 Repub|       required in our State if the government is to last. ~Yes, he will
 7 Repub|   guardians of the laws and of the government are only seeming and not
 8 Repub| institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the
 9 Repub| institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the
10 Repub|         form only; for whether the government is in the hands of one or
11 Repub|         BOOK VI: THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT~(SOCRATES, GLAUCON.) ~AND
12 Repub|            own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them.
13 Repub|             in the first place, no government patronizes them; this leads
14 Repub|            about the State and the government is not a mere dream, and
15 Repub|           BOOK VIII: FOUR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT~(SOCRATES, GLAUCON.) ~AND
16 Repub|        what were the four forms of government of which you spoke, and
17 Repub|         approved, and is a form of government which teems with evils:
18 Repub|        other intermediate forms of government. But these are nondescripts
19 Repub|           of many curious forms of government which exist among them. ~
20 Repub|     individual, and begin with the government of honor?-I know of no name
21 Repub|         know of no name for such a government other than timocracy or
22 Repub|         inquire how timocracy (the government of honor) arises out of
23 Repub|            out of aristocracy (the government of the best). Clearly, all
24 Repub|          actual governing power; a government which is united, however
25 Repub|           the change. ~And the new government which thus arises will be
26 Repub|  Undoubtedly, he said, the form of government which you describe is a
27 Repub|        husband has no place in the government, of which the consequence
28 Repub|           said, the second form of government and the second type of character? ~
29 Repub|         order. ~And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? ~
30 Repub|          do you term oligarchy? ~A government resting on a valuation of
31 Repub|           to have any share in the government. These changes in the constitution
32 Repub|    characteristics of this form of government, and what are the defects
33 Repub|            is not this true of the government of anything? ~I should imagine
34 Repub|          oligarchy, or the form of government in which the rulers are
35 Repub|            and this is the form of government in which the magistrates
36 Repub|           life, and what sort of a government have they? for as the government
37 Repub|   government have they? for as the government is, such will be the man. ~
38 Repub|      better in which to look for a government. ~Why? ~Because of the liberty
39 Repub|        which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder,
40 Repub|           equilibrium, putting the government of himself into the hands
41 Repub|          but above all in forms of government. ~True. ~The excess of liberty,
42 Repub|            be emancipated from the government of the rich and aristocratic,
43 Repub|         BOOK IX: ON WRONG OR RIGHT GOVERNMENT, AND THE PLEASURES OF EACH~(
44 Repub|            the wretchedest form of government, and the rule of a king
45 Repub|           possible, under the same government, friends and equals. ~True,