| | * "Democracy has, therefore, two excesses to avoid - the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy or monarchy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotic power, as the latter is completed by conquest." <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aY8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA120 The Spirit of Laws, with d'Alembert's analysis of the work, tr. by T. Nugent, Volume 1], 1878</ref> | | * "Democracy has, therefore, two excesses to avoid - the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy or monarchy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotic power, as the latter is completed by conquest." <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aY8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA120 The Spirit of Laws, with d'Alembert's analysis of the work, tr. by T. Nugent, Volume 1], 1878</ref> |