“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.” StatesUseGovernmentFormUnitedPartyUnited StatesSucceedDictatorBulletsForms Of GovernmentUpstart Author:Charles Coughlin
“The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people, enlightened people who live conscious lives and do not simply sit there and vegetate. To love the people you have to be the general secretary of the Communist Party or an absolute dictator.” PeoplePartyChildhoodConsciousAbsolutesPhrasesEnlightenedCommunistSovietConcreteDictatorSecretaryCommunist Party Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.” WarGovernmentAgePoliticalPartyRevolutionMarkCharacteristicsEnterpriseSpheresInitiativeDictatorBiasPolitical PartiesFree Enterprise Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist