By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

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.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.