Government Quote by Wendell Willkie

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

— Wendell Willkie

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

— Stafford Cripps

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

— Richard M. Nixon

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

— Reid Hoffman

The truth is that regimes of corrupt, personalist rule - in which authoritarians wield the state to reward friends, punish enemies and secure their…

— Jamelle Bouie

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the…

— Gene Sharp

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other…

— Hilaire Belloc

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the…

— Vernon Howard

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder