Clearly.
And does not tyranny spring from democracy in the same manner as democracy from oligarchy — I mean, after a sort?
How?
The good which oligarchy proposed to itself and the means by which it was maintained was excess of wealth — am I not right?
Yes.
And the insatiable desire of wealth and the neglect of all other things for the sake of money-getting was also the ruin of oligarchy?
True.
And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution?
What good?
Freedom, I replied; which, as they tell you in a democracy, is the glory of the State —