| 1. | I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 2. | And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arise. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 4. | Next comes democracy and the democratic man, out of oligarchy and the oligarchical man. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 5. | Such, then, is the form and such are the evils of oligarchy and there may be many other evils. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | And the new government which thus arises will be of a form intermediate between oligarchy and aristocrac. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | Yes, he said at any rate the individual out of whom he came is like the State out of which oligarchy came. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 8. | The good which oligarchy proposed to itself and the means by which it was maintained was excess of wealth--am I not righ. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 9. | You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. - from The Republic by Plato |