Coups Quote by Ahmed Ben Bella

Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

— Sushil Koirala

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good,…

— Jimmy Carter

In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many…

— Evo Morales

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

— Kamisese Mara

“In the late 1950s and early 1960s, leading up to its first coup in March 1963, the Ba‘th in general, and Saddam Hussein in…

— Fred Halliday

Back in the 1950s, America set out to intervene in Syria, liberate the people from a corrupt elite, and bring about a new democracy.…

— Adam Curtis

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it…

— Wael Ghonim

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr