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Quotes About Assassination

Cersei will send men after you, I have no doubt. You might do well to take another name." "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.
~ George R.R. Martin
To Queen her is to kill her.
~ George R.R. Martin
Whisper a word in the wrong ear and before you knew it you'd be short a head.
~ George R.R. Martin
When Ali Agca, a Turk, shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, both the target and the would-be killer were well within Vatican territory," wrote George Armstrong, the respected Rome correspondent for London's Guardian. "The Vatican was happy to have him arrested, tried and sentenced in Italy, and under Italian law, and his life sentence will be at the expense of the Italian taxpayer. The Vatican becomes another country only when it chooses to be.
~ Gerald Posner
The ides of March are come.
~ William Shakespeare
The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'
~ Stephen Hunter
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.
~ Louis Stokes
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.
~ Walt Whitman
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
~ Benigno Aquino III
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
~ Mario Puzo
Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he will slip on board a battleship and silently kill its entire crew with his bare hands before doing an Olympic-qualifying dive into the bay, punching out a few sharks, climbing back into his kayak and paddling back to Australia for a beer.
~ Neal Stephenson
How America was Saved from Communism: ELVIS SHOT JFK
~ Neal Stephenson
Their mission achieved, Princip and Cabrinovic both tried to commit suicide, but the cyanide in the capsules they carried had oxidized and failed to kill them.
~ Niall Ferguson
Rising to his feet he said, 'If the heir to the throne has been assassinated, well, first of all we know nothing for certain, and secondly, it doesn't concern us in the least.'…
~ Niall Ferguson
No sooner were they seated than soldiers issued from secret places and slaughtered Giovanni and the rest.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.
~ Louis Farrakhan
I am not scared of you. I am scared only of Headmistress. She trained me since birth. She sent me here from Dark Room to kill your vice president to delay Key Treaty. I cannot fail her.
~ Chris Samnee
Francesco de Pazzi thereupon stabbed him with such frenzy, plunging the blade time and again into the unresisting body, that he even drove the point of the dagger through his own tigh. Giuliano fell to his knees while two assailants continued to rain savage blows upon him, slashing and stabbing until the corpse was rent by nineteen wounds. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
~ Christopher Hibbert
The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and staring up in the gutters...
~ Ulysses S. Grant
the Northern people; whereas, as a matter of fact, but for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, I believe the great majority of the Northern people, and the soldiers unanimously, would have been in favor of a speedy reconstruction on terms that would be the least humiliating to the people who had rebelled against their government. They believed, I have no doubt, as I did, that besides being the mildest, it was also the wisest, policy.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
O nosso coração é tão vacilante e a vida humana um tal mistério, que mesmo num assassinato cívico, num assassinato libertador, se os há, o remorso de ter ferido um homem excede o prazer de ter sido útil ao género humano.
~ Victor Hugo
Rapp perked up at that. He'd love to put a bullet between that son of a bitch's eyes.
~ Kyle Mills