Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than the temporary failures of democracy.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

Which is better, to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

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

I will never abuse power if elected.... This country [Russia] can never again fall under the influence of a dictator.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

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

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Empire and liberty.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself