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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.