Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

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

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

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Even North Korean people who are not necessarily happy with economic policies are still loyal to the state itself. It's a military-first state, so whether it does very well on the economic front or not, is not central to public support for it.

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

La Follette is the Grand American neo-Copperhead ... at the moment loyally serving one country—Germany.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

Socialism holds nothing but unhappiness for the human race. It destroys personal initiative, wipes out national pride ... and plays into the hands of the autocrats.... Socialism is the end of fanatics, the sophistry of so-called intelligentsia, and it has no place in the hearts of those who would secure and fight for freedom and preserve democracy.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

In an absolute government there can be no... equiponderant parties. The despot is the government.

We pledge allegiance to the United States, not to Grover Norquist.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

The good government of one man is the bad government of another