Dictatorship Quotes

Most popular dictatorship quotes

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson quote.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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Efficiency can never be substituted for due process. Is not a dictatorship the more "efficient" form of government? - Thurgood Marshall quote.
Efficiency can never be substituted for due process. Is not a dictatorship the more "efficient" form of government?

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

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.  And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill quote.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.  And the tigers are getting hungry.
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule—executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses—the nationalization or expropriation of private property—and censorship. - Ayn Rand quote.
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule—executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses—the nationalization or expropriation of private property—and censorship.