Mauricio Macri Quotes

No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

Mobutu does not think he is God.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

I would not like a king who could obey.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Mobutu was mainstream Africa. Every independent African Government was a one-party state at the time. None allowed opposition. Every one of them had rent-seeking political leaders. The only thing that set Mobutu apart was how ostentatious his theft was.

The people are good; the government is not good.

The more a regime claims to be the embodiment of liberty the more tyrannical it is likely to be.

The rule of several bad men does not last long, and easily decays to the rule of a single tyrant.

Government by one man: He is called a lord if he inclines to a good and common end; a tyrant if he is inclined to pursue bad or merely personal ends.

One man’s democratization is another man’s destabilization.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.