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Dictatorship Quotes

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought"

"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

"The fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law."

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable"

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it"

"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"I was always dreaming about very powerful people—dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years."