#dictator

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

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I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

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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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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies. ↗

— Tony Snow

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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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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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