Idi Amin quotes
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“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
-- Idi AminSource : Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.
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“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech”
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“If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.”
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“I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.”
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“I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.”
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“My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.”
-- Idi AminSource : Attributed in "Uganda, the Human Rights Situation" by United States Congress. Senate, (p. 13), 1978.
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“I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.”
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“Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.”
-- Idi AminSource : Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.
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“I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.”
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“In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.”
-- Idi AminSource : Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.
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“Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.”
-- Idi AminSource : Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”
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“It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.”
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“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”
-- Idi AminSource : Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”
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“I am the hero of Africa.”
-- Idi AminSource : Attributed in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 1), 1988.
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“Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.”
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“Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.”
-- Idi AminSource : 1978 Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in A Barrow International Gossip (1983).
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“Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.”
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“I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.”
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