Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Quotes

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

the Distress of our oppressed Country, which now unjustly feels the baneful Effects of arbitrary Power.

There is no middle course between the throne and the scaffold.

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

I would not like a king who could obey.

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

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.

Systematic recourse to violence put forward as the necessary path to liberation has to be condemned as a destructive illusion and one that opens the way to new forms of servitude. One must condemn with equal vigor violence exercised by the powerful against the poor, arbitrary action by the police, and any form of violence established as a system of government.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

Why does every nation on earth move to change their conditions except us [Arabs]. Why do we always submit to the batons of the rulers and their repression. How long will Arabs wait for foreign saviors?

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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