#assassin

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

— Voltaire

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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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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. ↗

— John Bolton

#except #favor #horrific #larger #larger scale

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

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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

#around #assassination #close #country #dr

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

— Pierre Salinger

#ever #greatest #greatest men #i #known

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

— Pierre Salinger

#days #especially #following #her #husband

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delight #game #hired #jest #lawyer

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

#files #fired #firstly #forth #hired

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

#assassination #been #black #even #ever