Jess Phillips Quotes

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

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.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

You agreed with the Dear Leader or you died or ended up in Camp 913.

Where annual elections end, there tyranny begins..

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

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