DICTATORSHIP
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Dictatorship is like a great beech tree, nice to look at, but nothing grows under it.—STANLEY BALDWIN
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Dictatorship—the fetish worship of one man—is a passing phase. A state of society where men may not speak their minds, where children denounce their parents to the police, where a business man or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinions—such a state of society cannot long endure if brought into contact with the healthy outside world.—WINSTON CHURCHILL, Blood, Sweat & Tears
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One thing has struck me as very strange, and that is the resurgence of the one-man power after all these centuries of experience and progress. It is curious how the English-speaking peoples have always had this horror of one-man power. They are quite ready to follow a leader for a time, as long as he is serviceable to them; but the idea of handing themselves over, lock, stock and barrel, body and soul, to one man, and worshipping him as if he were an idol—that has always been odious to the whole theme and nature of our civilization.—WINSTON CHURCHILL, Blood, Sweat & Tears
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Who is all-powerful should fear everything.—CORNEILLE, Cinna
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.—WILL DURANT, The Life of Greece
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His energetic fist
Should be ready to resist
A dictatorial word.—W. S. GILBERT, H. M. S. Pinafore
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One must never forget that everything that is actually great in this world has not been fought for and won by coalitions, but that it was always the success of one individual victor.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
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The Fuehrer is the Party and the Party is the Fuehrer. Just as I f eel myself only as a part of the Party, the Party feels itself only as a part of me.—ADOLF HITLER,
National Soc. Party Congr. 1935
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That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.—RICHARD HOOKER, Ecclesiastical Polity
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When the dignity of the human soul is denied in great parts of the world, and when that denial is made a slogan under which propaganda is set in motion and armies take the field, no one of us can be sure that his country or even his home is safe.—CORDELL HULL
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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.—EMIL LUDWIG
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He who establishes a dictatorship and does not kill Brutus, or he who founds a republic and does not kill the sons of Brutus, will only reign a short time.—MACHIAVELLI, Discourses
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Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.—JAN MASARYK
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They [people in lands with dictators] have forgotten the lessons of history that the ultimate failures of dictatorships cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy.—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Address, 1937
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Like the form of a seen and unheard prowler, like a slow and cruel violence, is the known unspoken menace : do what we tell you or go hungry; listen to us or you don't eat.—CARL SANDBURG, The People, Yes
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Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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Any fool can govern with a stick in his hand. I could govern that way. It is not God's way.—BERNARD SHAW, Heartbreak House
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A very fair spot but there is no way down from it.—SOLON, Of Dictatorship
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As I stand aloof and watch there is something profoundly moving in great masses of men following the leadership of men who do not believe in men.—WALT WHITMAN
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It is a consoling fact that, in the end, the moral independence of mankind remains undestructible. Never has it been possible for a dictatorship to enforce one religion or one philosophy upon the whole world. Nor will it ever be possible, for the spirit always escapes from servitude; refuses to think in accordance with prescribed forms, to become shallow and supine at the word of command, to allow uniformity to be permanently imposed upon it.—STEFAN ZWEIG, The Right to Heresy
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