Full Idea
The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall.
Gist of Idea
The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B044), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.2
Book Reference
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.27
A Reaction
This may be the first recorded assertion of the rule of law, and hence of the separation of powers. We still have plenty of people who reject this principle.