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Quotes About Assassination

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March." —Brutus to Julius Caesar, Act I, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, circa 1600
~ William D. Cohan
Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you.
~ Perry Noble
The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated... There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
~ Voltaire
What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
~ Sean Lennon
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
~ Voltaire
If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.
~ Lee Ryan
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
~ Oliver Stone
When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
~ Larry Hagman
When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.
~ Etta James
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
I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.
~ Barack Obama
Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city's most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint
~ Brent Weeks
I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
~ John Lennon
It's unbelievable—or we're supposed to think it is—that a president was murdered by our own government agencies because he was seeking a more stable peace than relying on nuclear weapons. It's unspeakable. For the sake of a nation that must always be preparing for war, that story must not be told. If it were, we might learn that peace is possible without making war.
~ James W. Douglass
What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assas­sination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.
~ James W. Douglass
On the moonless night of April 14, 1865, days after a plot to blow up the White House failed, John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln. During the twelve days of his flight through the
~ Jane Singer
On the moonless night of April 14, 1865, days after a plot to blow up the White House failed, John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln. During the twelve days of
~ Jane Singer
If anybody really wanted to shoot the president of the United States," Kennedy told his aide Kenneth O'Donnell on the morning of November 22, "it was not a very difficult job—all one had to do was get a high building someday with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt.
~ Jared Cohen
had taken place just before Grant's visit, and Wilhelm was unable to receive him. "Here is an old man," says Bismarck, — "one of the kindest old gentlemen in the world — and yet they must try and shoot him!
~ Edmund Wilson
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.
~ Lindsey Graham