Rory Bremner Quotes

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

This administration seems intent on accumulating unchecked power.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

If the president can make whatever policy he likes, we are governed not by law, but by the arbitrary whims of one man ...

... a consolidation of unchecked and despotic power in the House of Representatives ...

For one branch of government to control each of the other two is not a good thing.

Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Franklin, you may have to assume dictatorial powers.

Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is difficult to dislodge.

There must be in all [societies and governments] a supreme, irresistable, absolute, uncontrolled authority.

That which killed my late master, & so many of his predecessors. The responsibility of arbitrary power.

Why is machine government a greater affront to democracy than a government of leaderless individualists prone to petty rivalry and endless bickering?

We have seen the evil of perpetuation of centralization of government, and of control from Great bureaucracies, appointments of courts and control of our foreign relations, all due to the bill-up, accumulated potency and power of one man [FDR] remaining to long in public office.

The army and the government needs a dictator.