The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|         be to the newly restored democracy, were the names of Alcibiades,
 2 Text |      happened in the days of the democracy. But when the oligarchy


Crito
   Part
 3 Intro|       memory of the now restored democracy. The fact that he had been


Laws
   Book
 4 3    |    called monarchy and the other democracy: the Persians have the highest
 5 3    |         has grown up. For if the democracy which judged had only consisted
 6 4    |         the third degree, from a democracy: is not that your meaning?~
 7 4    |     thirdly, out of some sort of democracy: fourth, in the capacity
 8 4    |         Do you mean some form of democracy, or oligarchy, or aristocracy,
 9 4    |      person or an oligarchy or a democracy has a soul eager after pleasures
10 4    |          suppose that tyranny or democracy, or any other conquering
11 6    |        mean between monarchy and democracy, and such a mean the state
12 8    |          governments are a cause—democracy, oligarchy, tyranny, concerning


Menexenus
   Part
13 Text |          and is sometimes called democracy, but is really an aristocracy


The Republic
   Book
14 8    |       teems with evils: thirdly, democracy, which naturally follows
15 8    |       will turn our attention to democracy and the democratical man;
16 8    |         be no doubt. ~Next comes democracy; of this the origin and
17 8    |       change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is it not on this
18 8    |           Yes, surely. ~And then democracy comes into being after the
19 8    |      said, that is the nature of democracy, whether the revolution
20 8    |         been doing, must go to a democracy as he would to a bazaar
21 8    |       you not observed how, in a democracy, many persons, although
22 8    |          the forgiving spirit of democracy, and the "don't care" about
23 8    |    characteristics are proper to democracy, which is a charming form
24 8    |         then be set over against democracy; he may truly be called
25 8    |          not tyranny spring from democracy in the same manner as democracy
26 8    |  democracy in the same manner as democracy from oligarchy-I mean, after
27 8    |        of oligarchy? ~True. ~And democracy has her own good, of which
28 8    |     which, as they tell you in a democracy, is the glory of the State-and
29 8    |    State-and that therefore in a democracy alone will the freeman of
30 8    |          introduce the change in democracy, which occasions a demand
31 8    |        tyranny. ~How so? ~When a democracy which is thirsting for freedom
32 8    |        dominion of man have in a democracy than in any other State:
33 8    |         oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; the same disease magnified
34 8    |          naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated
35 8    | generated alike in oligarchy and democracy, and is the ruin of both? ~
36 8    |        are doing, let us imagine democracy to be divided, as indeed
37 8    |        That is true. ~And in the democracy they are certainly more
38 8    |    gather strength; whereas in a democracy they are almost the entire
39 8    |         most powerful class in a democracy. ~True, he said; but then
40 8    |    manner of the transition from democracy to tyranny? ~Yes, quite


The Statesman
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41 Intro|         monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy? and the distinctions of
42 Intro|  aristocracy and plutocracy; and democracy may observe the law or may
43 Intro|        royalty, aristocracy, and democracy, might be divided into two,
44 Intro|  aristocracy and plutocracy; and democracy may also be divided, for
45 Intro|          divided, for there is a democracy which observes, and a democracy
46 Intro|  democracy which observes, and a democracy which neglects, the laws.
47 Intro|          that the leaders of the democracy have been themselves of
48 Intro|     learn by experience that the democracy has become a plutocracy.
49 Text |         is called by the name of democracy?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
50 Text |   SOCRATES: Certainly.~STRANGER: Democracy alone, whether rigidly observing
51 Text |         name, and oligarchy; and democracy or the rule of the many,
52 Text |   without the restraints of law, democracy is the form in which to