"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal……" — Richard Perle
"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
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30 Quotes by Richard Perle
Richard Perle has 30 quotes on this site.
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For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause…
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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
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No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.
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Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country.…
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These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
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Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few…
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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer,…
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We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
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The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent…
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In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
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Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of…
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More Dictator Quotes
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one of 434 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
— Mel Brooks
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they…
— James Buchan
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I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country…
— Madeleine Albright
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
— George W. Bush
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
— George W. Bush
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
— Fidel Castro
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
— Hugo Chavez
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