Seized Power Quotes
- All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by… — James Cross Giblin
- Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized… — Christopher Hitchens
- Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world… — Eric Liu
- [He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the… — Vince Flynn
- Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a… — Stephen Kinzer