29 Quotes About Coup




  • Author Adam Levin
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    Our plastic muskets, though powderless, will frontload, and our coup will not be bloodless, nor will the blood be lambly. It will stain the lion's den whose bars though invisible are verily there as well roll along, doo-da doo-da and a thousand lonely dirges.

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  • Author Jasmine Warga
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    Those men are now fighting against the government's army, and the people who live in the town don't know whose side to choose. They only want the violence to stop. Nobody knows which side is right anymore.

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  • Author Scott Lynch
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    You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

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  • Author Brad Adams
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    If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.

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  • Author Elliott Abrams
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    Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

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