Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
“It is owing to lack of vigilance that those who are not friendly to the constitution are sometimes allowed to get into the supreme offices.”
- From Aristotle’s Politics (Bekker page 1303a), translated by T. A. Sinclair and revised by T. J. Saunders (Penguin Classics, 1962, 1981, 1992).
