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Quotes About Assassination

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
On December 24, a young French royalist burst into Darlan's office at the Summer Palace and shot him dead. Responsibility for the assassination remains one of the last significant mysteries of the Second World War. The immediate perpetrator, one Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle, was hurried before a firing squad two days later.
~ Max Hastings
And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives a whole new meaning to the word assassination.
~ Megan McCafferty
One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
~ Michael Beschloss
The concrete for Trump Tower came from S&A Concrete, then owned by the heads of two New York crime families: "Fat" Tony Salerno, of the Genovese family, and Paul "Big Paul" Castellano, of the Gambinos (Castellano was assassinated in 1985 outside Sparks Steak House on Manhattan's East Side in a Mafia hit organized by the mobster John Gotti).
~ Unknown
assassinated just four days before. "It was like
~ Nancy Gibbs
To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever witnessed the slaying of his predecessor or endured such a brutal transfer of power.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Throughout history, big changes always start with a girl meeting a boy." "No they don't," Jane said. "They start with somebody being assassinated.
~ Unknown
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent
~ Nelson Mandela
here is something strange. Between the fatwa and the present, religious killers have murdered just one Western artist – the Dutch director Theo van Gogh, assassinated in 2004 for making a film with the Somali feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Yet in the same period Western culture changed, and not for the better.
~ Nick Cohen
The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But the high politics of the city of Rome little affected the lives of the masses or even of the provincial nobility. It was the wonderful army that provided the continuity and peace that this vast population enjoyed.
~ Unknown
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The gunshot hit Nicolai Gorev squarely between the eyes. His head snapped back, then whipped forward, and he toppled face-first onto his desk.
~ Paul Levine
Steel, speed, and stealth for a hit. Never spells. And sure as Hells never fire.
~ Paul S. Kemp
For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official.
~ Unknown
They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.
~ 2 Samuel 4:6
In the third year of Asaís reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.
~ 1 Kings 15:28
Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
~ 2 Kings 15:14
Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the kingís palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.
~ 2 Kings 15:25
Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.
~ 2 Kings 15:30
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
~ 2 Kings 19:37
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
~ Isaiah 37:38