Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.56, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
