John McCain Quotes

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

A tyrant is a man who sacrifices a whole nation to his ideal or his ambition.

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

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

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.

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.

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.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

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

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.