Idi Amin Quotes

• There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Freedom Of Speech, Guarantees

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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 Amin

  Uganda, Doctors, Sea

  Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.

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• I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

  Idi Amin

  Mean, Order, Law

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• It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Leader, Flesh

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• If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Would Be, Happenings

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• The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

  Idi Amin

  Government, Years, Fifty

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• Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

  Idi Amin

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

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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.

  Idi Amin

  People, Six, Germany

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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.

  Idi Amin

  Powerful, Uganda, World

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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 Amin

  Country, Government, Vices

  Attributed in "Uganda, the Human Rights Situation" by United States Congress. Senate, (p. 13), 1978.

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• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  Idi Amin

  Running, Military, Evil

  Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

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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 Amin

  Country, Sacrifice, Uganda

  Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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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 Amin

  Men, Experience, Lessons

  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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• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Boxing, Trying

  Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.

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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.

  Idi Amin

  Hydrogen Bomb, Political, Bombs

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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 Amin

  Real, Men, Uganda

  Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.

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• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  Idi Amin

  Powerful, Uganda, World

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• I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

  Idi Amin

  Islam

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• I am the hero of Africa.

  Idi Amin

  Hero

  Attributed in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 1), 1988.

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• I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  Idi Amin

  Athlete, Boxing, Champion

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