Stanley Baldwin Quotes

Every dictatorship creates thousands of smaller dictators who live on for decades.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

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

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

Dictator, n. An evil man who maintains power by intimidation and force, refusing to obey the United States.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

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.

From this day the presidency of Mexico ends. The dictatorship of Mexico begins.

Political or religious dissenters are the plague of every totalitarian regime.

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

Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralization have paralyzed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalized murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made effort bitter, labor a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

… the meanest and worst of all forms of government