Thucydides Quotes about Democracy

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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Thucydides

Office, Democracy, Failing

"History of the Peloponnesian War". Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.

As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.

Thucydides

Men, Thinking, Democracy

Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.413, Simon and Schuster