Frederick Forsyth Quotes

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another.

I happen to be one of those people who do not believe in muIti-party democracy.

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

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.

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Democracy takes time. Dictatorship is quicker, but too many people get shot.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Two great parties are forming in all nations. For one there is a right of government to be exercised by one or several persons over the mass of the people .... This is opposed by the new system which admits no right of government except that arising from the free consent of those who submit to it.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

There is no future for socialism by dictatorship. It has to be by consent.

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

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny.

The Republic established by the founders was a fragile experiment in a world bestrode by kings, queens, emperors, czars, dictators, and theories of aristocracy.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.