Quotes

Quotes about Dictatorship

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill,--the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,--when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

Pliny the Elder

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.

Ludwig Von Mises