Assassination

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
- Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912 - 1989

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
- Indira Nehru Gandhi, 1917 - 1984

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 1694 - 1778

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, 1884 - 1972

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

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

- Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945

Assassination has never changed the history of the world

- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...

- J. G. Ballard