I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted…

There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April,…

— Hugo Chavez

“The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the army's tacit,…

— John Strawson

“Either there will be a coup d'état, or we will have Muslim extremism.”

— John R. Bradley

Many of us mistakenly believe a coup d'etat is the only kind of coup possible. But a coup doesn't always require tanks on a…

— Clive Lewis

To take over a government through military force would create instability, and it would not last for long. I do not want to leave…

— Suharto

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight…

— Rand Beers

“A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on Talleyrand's urging,…

— J. Christopher Herold

“...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

— Barbara Tuchman

“There are several accounts, written or deposed, by the guards, executioners and inhumers of the Romanovs. One of the inhumers said that he could…

— Martin Amis

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

— Saddam Hussein

“A Foreign Office diplomat in London wrote in the margins of a Tehran report: “I tend to the view that Musaddiq still enjoys some…

— Ervand Abrahamian

What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted…

— Vladimir Putin

“The CIA that killed President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy,” she wrote, “did a test case in Greece on canceling elections. Andreas Papandreou, often compared…

— Mae Brussell

“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…

— Timothy Snyder