Dictators quotes

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◆ It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

- Herbert Hoover100

◆ We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

- Trent Lott99

◆ Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

- Jan Masaryk99

◆ When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

- Bob Kerrey99

◆ We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

- George W Bush99

◆ Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

- R Buckminster Fuller99

◆ President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

- Lindsey Graham99

◆ Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

- William Beveridge99

◆ The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

- Charlie Chaplin99

◆ Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

- Charlie Chaplin99

◆ Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

- Stephen Vizinczey99

◆ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear

- Alan Coren99

◆ Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

- George Orwell99

◆ History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

- Vladimir Putin99