"I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun."
— Fidel Castro

January 1, 1970

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I Won't Be a Dictator, interview with Ruth Lloyd (January 1959), printed in The Spokesman-Review (24 May 1959)