Dictatorship & Tyranny

• Dictatorship is like a great beech tree...nice to look at, but nothing grows under it. —Stanley Baldwin
• What millions died—that Caesar might be great! —Thomas Campbell
• Who is all-powerful should fear everything. —Corneille
• When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. —Will Durant
• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. —Dean Inge
• Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes. —Jan Masaryk
• Dictatorship is "a very fair spot but there is no way down from it." —Solon
• Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. —Anonymous [Hindustani Proverb]
• Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. —Thomas Jefferson [motto on his seal, original author unknown]
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. —George Orwell
• The face of tyranny is always mild at first. —Racine