Dictatorships Quotes

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

If they can do these things to the most powerful person in the nation, they can do them to you or me. Dictatorships behave this way, not democracies.

Every one of the world`s dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.