There ought to be an absolute dictatorship ... a dictatorship of painters ... a dictatorship of one painter ... to suppress all th...ose who have betrayed us, to suppress the cheaters, to suppress the tricks, to suppress mannerisms, to suppress charms, to suppress history, to suppress a heap of other things. But common sense always gets away with it. Above all, let's have a revolution against that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy....... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings... of dictatorship by somebody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A nationally known advertising man wrote me the other day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not concerned w...ith the affairs of the British Empire but are concerned with our own safety ... the integrity of our own continent, and the lives of our own children in the next generation. That, I think, is a pretty good line to take because it happens to be true, and it is on that line itself that we must, for ... purely selfish reasons, prevent at almost any hazard the Axis domination of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present sessio...n because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party..., the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a "dictator" substitutes himself for the central committee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »