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“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”

War Latin Reviews Dictator Latin America Insurgent Latin American American War

Author:Alvaro Uribe

“Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.”

Sometimes Dictator Subconscious

Author:Denis Villeneuve

“You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.”

World War Done Today Jobs America Past Behinds Four Wall Cold Victory Decades Iron Dictator Cold War Curtains Berlin Valor Saying Thank You Free World Get The Job Done Berlin Wall Iron Curtain

Author:Bob Dole

“When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.”

Way Years Firsts War States America United United States Policy Cold Hundred Years Ago Blame Democrat Allies Soviet Dictator Cold War Marxist Guerrillas Central America

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.”

Politics Benefits Dictator

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.”

“If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.”

Ifs Crime Dictator Disrespect

Author:Richard Griffiths

“The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.”

Shows Strong Sports Party Blood Pride Weak Machines Tyranny Dictator Hounds

Book:Memoral Addresses and Tributes

Source: Memoral Addresses and Tributes

“A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.”

People Way Atheism Fool One Way Dictator

Book:Christmas Holiday

Source: Christmas Holiday

“When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.”

Stills Real Truth Gone Crosses Dictator Real Things Opportunist

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.”

War Greater Risk Tyrants Dictator Stopping

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.”

People Kind Book Happened Ultimate Sacred Forgiving Tyranny Hated Censorship Burned Dictator

Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.”

May Country Matter Speak Language Interesting Speech No Matter What Dictator Hail Resemblance

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.”

Source: The Names

“If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.”

Ifs Should Years Age Hours Five Four Members Population Five Years Quarters Dictator Eighty Compulsory

Author:Thomas Beecham

“If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.”

Ifs Stills Home Hands Government Dies Forever Succeed Foundation Democratic China Tyrants Stable Dictator Oblivion Live Forever Democratic Government

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.”

Thinking Modern Essence Terror Combination Flats Dictatorship Dictator

Author:Theodor Haecker

“We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.”

Years Care Law Dictator Putin

Author:Garry Kasparov

“But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!”

Want Roles Models Role Models Dictator

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.”

Ideas Perfection Doctrine Dictator Spawn Totalitarian Regimes

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.”

Thinking Able Directors Absolutes Dictator Dimes Good Directors

Author:Bob Balaban

“A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.”

World Thirds Universal Instruments Dictator Third World

Author:Joe Bob Briggs

“I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.”

People Thinking I Can Happens Forget Democracy Building Things Happen About Yourself Formulas Dictator Make Things Happen

Author:Corazon Aquino

“It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.”

People Way Looks Hard Violent Dictator

Author:Tammy Baldwin

“I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.”

Thinking Knows Important Perspective Mets Meetings Dictator Kim Butchers Castro Beijing Kim Il Sung

Author:Gary Ackerman

“Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.”

Knows World Real Character Careers Enjoyed Real World Dictator Larger Than Life

Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Has Beens Difficult Impossible Fake Dictator Pulling Documentaries

Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.”

Ifs States Government Democracy Citizens Ideals Democratic Believer Arise Locals Inevitable Boss Devoted Dictator Nevertheless True Believer Local Government Democratic Ideals

Author:Charles Edison

“You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.”

“Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.”

Want Needs Baseball Dictator Cuba

Author:Bob Kerrey

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