Full Idea
Poverty in a democracy is as preferable to what is called prosperity under autocracy as freedom is to slavery.
Gist of Idea
It is better to be poor in a democracy than be rich without freedom
Source
Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B251), quoted by John Stobaeus - Anthology 3.40.42
Book Reference
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.191