I. F. Stone Quotes

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

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

The man is a tyrant and he killed lots of people .

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.

We may have to ASSASSINATE some of the people you elect on Nov. 7! This could be your LAST ELECTION CHANCE, to save this Republic... Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

Stalin is too brutal. His powers should be taken away from him.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.

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

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

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.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

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.

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