Assassination – Quotes

I would no more

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination. Eugene V. Debs

Five hours after presenting a …lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)…The late Arthur … Read more

The important thing to

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. Eric Ambler

Philosophers and theologians have

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations – a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency – without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. Eric Alterman

We pledge to fight

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

My heart burnt within

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell

I cannot be indifferent

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. Edward VII

If it comes to

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me – the Espionage Act – is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you’ve … Read more

Some tried to kill

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him … this is par for the course. Frederick Lenz

For a startling period

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war – bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges. Frank Delaney