William Archer Quotes

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

Joseph Stalin was a supreme egotist and sadist, capable of sacrificing everything and anyone for the sake of his own power and glory.

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

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

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

... the perfect dictatorship.

What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on reigns of Civil authority; in many cases they have seen the upholding of the throne of political tyranny: In no instance have they been seen to be the guardians of the liberty of the people.

Around him are the riffraff of thick-skinned party leaders. He plays off the half-humans with favours. Forging edict after edict as if they were horseshoes- Shoots some in the forehead, others in the chest, the eye, the groin. Everyday he has an execution -- for our Broadchested Georgian it's like picking raspberries

Dictators are the last to know.

Theodore Roosevelt is following the footsteps of Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte, and unless we stop him it will be but a question of time when he usurps a dictatorship of the American people.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.

… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

The more a regime claims to be the embodiment of liberty the more tyrannical it is likely to be.