Aristotle quotes on democracy

Democracy is the least vicious of all, since herein the form of the constitution undergoes least change
Source: Aristotle, Ethics

Now he is desirous to have his whole plan of government neither a democracy nor an oligarchy, but

There are three points in the constitution of Solon which appear to be its most democratic features: first and most important, the prohibition of loans on the security of the debtor's person; secondly, the right of every person who so willed to claim redress on behalf of any one to whom wrong was being done; thirdly, the institution of the appeal to the jurycourts; and it is to this last, they say, that the masses have owed their strength most of all, since, when the democracy is master of the voting-power, it is master of the constitution
Source: Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution

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