"Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!"
— Augusto Pinochet

January 1, 1970

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Speech (October 1981), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." This expression is not original to Pinochet; it is also attributed to Inca Atahualpa in 1531. See Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies.