As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

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

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.

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

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, 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.

The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.