Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
Baron de MontesquieuThe culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
Baron de Montesquieu