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This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.

Remember the Titans

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Remember the Titans. Directed by Boaz Yakin, Technical Black Films/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Walt Disney Pictures, 2000.

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Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Taxi Driver

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Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Caligula

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Quoted in Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius

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Accius, Lucius. Atreus. c. 86 BC, Rome, Italy.

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. Letter. 11 Nov. 1937.

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Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word-just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours-not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini-like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days-and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 2.

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The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and will always be, folly; but we have staked upon it our all.

Learned Hand

United States v. Associated Press

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Hand, Learned. District Court, S. D. New York. United States v. Associated Press. 52 F. Supp. 362 (1943). 6 Oct. 1943, law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/52/362/1755014/.

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Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy, and creates dissension.