Boris Yeltsin Quote

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Televised speech (4 October 1993), as quoted in A Democracy of Despots (1995) by Donald Murray. p. 8

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.