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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.


Eliot Spitzer


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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'


Ralph W. Sockman


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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.


Antonio Tabucchi


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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." [From the Preface]


C.S. Lewis


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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?


Alfred de Musset


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Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.


Gene Sharp


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If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.


Péter Zilahy


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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.


George W. Bush


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