Top 198 Assassination Quotes & Sayings

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

Assassination's the fastest way.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime - who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don't have to agree with everything he says, but you do have to defend his right to say it.

A political leader worthy of assassination

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you.

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

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.

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.

If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.

Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

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.

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.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.