Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"Democracy is the name given to any force that opposes absolute power."
- From a speech attributed to Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BCE) in the History of the Peloponnesian War (Book VI, section 89) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).
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