#dictatorship

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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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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There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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