And so the probable outcome of too much freedom is only too much slavery in the individual and the state. Probably, then, tyranny develops out of no other constitution than democracy—from the height of liberty, I take it, the fiercest extreme of servitude.
Father of Western philosophy
From Plato's Republic, Book 8, 564a, on the transition from democracy to tyranny.
~375 BC
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