Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Democracy passes into despotism.