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Help find similar quotes? related: Voters upset choosing between the two US oligarch partys "get over yourselves" said Hillary.

I thought this would make a good post if I could find 3 or 4 quotes from modern autocrat leaders, and also historic autocratic leaders. Iconic like Bush's "mission accomplished" and other poigniant sound-bite sentences that boils down the very essence on out-of-touch dictator lackeys just spewing utterly inane nothings at a time of historic social change.

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[–] Pisha@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.

I know it's almost cheating to use Dan Quayle, but this quote really says something about the liberal imagination of history as a march of progress that sometimes just goes in the wrong direction for a bit.