Saddam Hussein Quotes

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

You had better have one King than five hundred.

We are one organization with one policy and command structure, and all the governments participating have to accept that.

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

Cuba is a nation stuck in time, and the regime's complete control of businesses, the press and the Internet has kept the Cuban people from advancing and achieving their dreams.

Progressives think progress depends upon (that is, they sometimes define progress as) the concentration of power as high as possible in government’s regulatory apparatus.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.