Moncef Marzouki Quotes

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

We cannot have a society in which some dictator somewhere can impose censorship here in the United States.

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

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.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Workers ... do not eat legal rights but bread. History, especially recent history, gives much evidence to support the contention that men want security more than freedom and that for an indefinite time they may be successfully governed by a dictator who keeps in mind the maxim that 'contented cows give the best milk.'

We do well in a country where people determine their own future. We suffer then there are dictators.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

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.

We must be ever vigilant against those who would strong arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into a dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends be avoiding these beginnings.

The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than the temporary failures of democracy.

There is a very long history of oppression in the Arab world, particularly in the states he mentions: Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, as well as in Sudan and Tunisia. These regimes are not based on democracy and their legitimacy comes from military dictatorships or inherited systems. The basic right of an individual to voice his or her opinion is not granted in any kind of form in the Arab world.

Today, the United Nations is a protection racket for the enemies of freedom...for despots.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Socialism holds nothing but unhappiness for the human race. It destroys personal initiative, wipes out national pride ... and plays into the hands of the autocrats.... Socialism is the end of fanatics, the sophistry of so-called intelligentsia, and it has no place in the hearts of those who would secure and fight for freedom and preserve democracy.

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

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

The difference between being out of step with a dictator and being out of step with the democratic majority is practically negligible. The important thing is to be in step.