The Republic - pg. 239

"And then the greediness for wealth and the neglect of the
rest for the sake of money-making destroyed it."
"True," he said.
"And does the greediness for what democracy defines as
good also dissolve it?"
"What do you say it defines that good to be?"
"Freedom," I said, "For surely in a city under a democracy
you would hear that htis is the finest thing it has, and that
for this reason it is the only regime worth living in for anyone
who is by nature free."