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


William Somerset Maugham

When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no difference to the individual whether that somebody else is a king, a dictator, or society at large


James Taggart

























No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand


Michael Straczynski
















It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own


Herbert Hoover



















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




Demosthenes