Clement Attlee Quotes

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Democracy passes into despotism.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

Within the Russian system, everything depends on the character of those few who hold full power in their hands. The position of the individual within present-day Russia has been described as follows: far-reaching economic security by sacrificing personal liberty.

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.

Democracy is political corruption which must be effectively done away with.

Do we want the Asiatic model—which is corrupt but works as long as you have a dictator who is active? Or do we want the democratic market model—which works, but only with transparency or reliability.

I will never abuse power if elected.... This country [Russia] can never again fall under the influence of a dictator.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

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.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

In times of crisis, we should have a period of 6 months of dictatorship to straighten things up, then return to democracy.

Despotisms usually ground themselves upon the theories of extreme democracy.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument — the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American

No one can be responsible for every congressman or every member of his own party.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.