America Quote by James Lileks

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

— Ludwig von Mises

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

— Saddam Hussein

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

— Harold H. Greene

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

— Lou Reed

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

— Aristotle

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

— Masha Gessen

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

— Margaret Thatcher

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

America does not stand with dictators, and we never will and we shall never.

— Ruben Gallego

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive ideas of…

— Anne Applebaum