Guido Calabresi Quotes

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

Italy would by saved only if Mussolini went crazy and crawled on all fours..

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

From this day the presidency of Mexico ends. The dictatorship of Mexico begins.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler and Lenin and a lot of people who have seized power and unleashed blitzkriegs from above and created tiny cabals of power concentrated in a tiny group at the top. That's what authoritarians do. It's right out of the playbook.

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it. The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.