For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes, but in public, we are ruled by the will of the majority.
Athenian statesman
For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes, but in public, we are ruled by the will of the majority.
Athenian statesman
Funeral Oration, as recorded by Thucydides
c. 431 BCE
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