Coup Quote by John R. Bradley

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

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

— Ferdinand Marcos

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

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

“Nasser's coup got rid of everything that was good in Egypt, and slowly replaced everything that was bad with something much worse.”

— John R. Bradley

A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies…

— Ibrahim Hooper

“Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d’etat by the second rank—troupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by…

— Tom Stoppard

“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act…

— Michael G. Kramer

I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency,…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today…

— Umberto Eco

“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