Democracy
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book I, Chapter II – Of the Various Kinds of Government: "Desiring, therefore, to discuss the nature of the government of Rome, and to ascertain the..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Chapter VII: "Let us draw up the whole account in terms easily commensurable. What man loses by..."
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book III, Chapter XXX – It is Necessary for a Citizen Who Proposes to Use his Authority to do any Good Work in a Republic First to Extinguish All Envy: "... as long as such men see that your reputation is greater than theirs, they..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 256: "When the State dissolves, the abuse of Government, whatever it might be, takes the common..."