As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from ‪‎terrorism or ‪#civil war‬, and are preserving "‪law‬ and ‪‎order‬

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.