He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government – that is despotism.
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest. But the habit of foregoing present satisfactions for the sake of the future advantages is irksome, and when passions are roused and prudent restraints of social behavior become […]
I have heard… that both the Army and the government needed a dictator. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask… is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Excessive power sees power beyond its power.
Is it credible that at the age of sixty-seven I am going to begin a career as a dictator?
When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
A proletarian dictatorship is never proletarian.
Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that, I will jail, I will crush.
