Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

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

Now comes the reign of iron.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

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

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

I fear that, tired of anarchy, you may hope at the end for a return of oppression and that you may welcome the yoke of the first fortunate adventurer who shows up, who, far from consolidating your destiny, will only prolong your servitude

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

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...

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.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Bolshevism means the death of peace. And it means the death of liberty.

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

this monster, this Colossus of Despotism ... a deep laid scheme to enslave us.