Free nations generally look for ways to deal with…

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

— George W. Bush

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

— Chen Guangcheng

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the…

— Rudy Giuliani

Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people…

— Burhan Sonmez

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that…

— Judy Woodruff

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy…

— Fidel Castro

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher

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…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

— Jaron Lanier

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of…

— Leon Jaworski

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it…

— Alberto Manguel

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the…

— Naomi Wolf

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

— Aldous Huxley

America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security of the…

— Jon Stewart

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk