The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.