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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Charles de Montesquieu

It was a gigantic waste of money and a payoff to the Coble club that runs the city of Columbia. If you look up oligarchy in the dictionary, it should say, 'Columbia.' We need someone new in there.

Rusty Depass

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

Aeschines