Quotes and Sayings about Assassination
"The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown."
- Henry Walter Bates
(Related: People, Manners, Reputation)
"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
- Michael Beschloss
(Related: Father, People, Assassination, Will)
"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so."
- Lindy Boggs
(Related: Assassination, President, Talk)
"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Assassination, Trying)
"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Character, Assassination, Fight, Party, Republican)
"The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians."
- Daniel Craig
(Related: History, Assassination)
"We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: Assassination, Tribute, Violence)
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: History, Assassination, World)
"It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance."
- Richard Dreyfuss
(Related: Talent, Character, Assassination)
"I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm."
- Louis Farrakhan
(Related: Assassination, Years)
"It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery."
- Jim Garrison
(Related: Assassination, Mystery)
"To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire."
- Jim Garrison
(Related: Truth, People, Assassination, Credibility, Fire, Repetition, Want)
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: War, Assassination, Enemy, Future, Terror)
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Death, Apathy, Assassination, Democracy, Indifference, Will)
"The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental."
- Akhmad Kadyrov
"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."
- Charles Krauthammer
(Related: Politics, Trust, Character, America, American, Assassination, Country, Politicians, Years)
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
- Irving Layton
(Related: Leader, Assassination, Canada)
"Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue."
- Karl Liebknecht
(Related: People, Assassination, Force, Will)
"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."
- Shimon Peres
(Related: Time, First, Old, Years)
"I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Men, Son, Assassination, Suicide)
"Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: HusbAssassination)
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Assassination, Censorship, Extreme)
"Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Assassination, President, Whisper)
"There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Assassination, Fact, Information, Man, Planning)
"People are just fascinated by assassinations."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: People)
"In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: History, American, Assassination, Mind, Opinion, President, Theories, Will)
"In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Assassination, Country, Rumors, Support)
"Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Assassination, Nothing, President)
"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
(Related: Possibility, Assassination, Crime, President)
"A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything."
- David Talbot
(Related: Change, End, Idealism, Sense)
"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Government, Men, Assassination, Being, Mind, Spirit, Suicide, Want)
"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
- Voltaire
(Related: Government, Assassination, Democracy)
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
- Voltaire
(Related: Government, Assassination, Tyranny)
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
- Voltaire
(Related: Government, Assassination, Democracy)
"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
- Sarah Vowell
(Related: Dedication, First, Focus)
"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: Death, Policy, Victory, Assassination, Leaders, Martyrs, Will)