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Dictator Quote by Michael A. Ledeen

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“Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'”

Michael A. Ledeen

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