Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.