Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Assassination has never yet changed the history of the world.
See Robert F. Kennedy for a later expression of this sentiment. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister (Tory), Speech, House of Commons, May 1, 1865
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See Banjamin Disraeli for an earlier expression of this idea.
The statement was made with respect to the possible overthrow of President Diem of South Vietnam, who was murdered anyway during the coup.
Yitzhak Rabin was the extremely popular President of Israel. At the time of his assassination his party controlled the Knesset (Parliament) and he was moving to make a two state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem. An ultra Orthodox Jewish fanatic shot Rabin so what there would be no settlement that would give up Israeli control of Judea and Samaria—the Biblical lands that literal believers in the Bible know that God consecrated that land for the Jewish People. To make a settlement compromise was needed on both sides and Rabin was strong enough to persuade most of the Israelis to take that risk. His successors never had the trust and confidence of the Israeli people that Rabin had as he had led the Israeli armed forces to victory and had also proved that he was a brilliant politician on domestic affairs. The unity that Rabin was able to create among Israelis has never been duplicated by any Israeli politician since.
Turner is one of the more virulent, neo-Nazis, race haters, and white supremacist. This quotation is often used by Americans to illustrate to foreigners what freedom of speech actually means.
This is one of the early descriptions of Islamic Terrorists and Assassins. Tutuses employed them to kill his brother, the Sultan. This passage also illustrates part of the history of Islamic sultans being deposed and/or killed by their own relatives which explains the hostility of Sultans to their own family during the Ottoman Empire. Note also the glorification of their own death which has been characteristic of many Islamic subgroups throughout history. So the modern suicide bomber is in a sense not a new phenomenon; the weapon is what has changed.
Two years later they won an electoral majority.
Pinkerton worked out a plan to spirit Lincoln through Baltimore where he had to change trains.
Thai society had been polarized and very large peaceful demonstrations (by the Yellow Shirts) were calling for the resignation of the government which although very corrupt and controlled by a single very rich family which had extensive support of the rural and poor (the Red Shirts). This quotation illustrates how a peaceful protest could lead to violence and terrorism. This Red Shirt leader, rather than lose, would lead violence in the streets like the Brown Shirts of the pre WWII Germany. If the violence fails, he was willing to go underground and become a terrorist movement.
The motivations and willingness to die of the suicide bomber is not unique to Islamic terrorists. On occasion our CIA has used the technique. Official CIA instructions on “lost assassination” were distributed within the agency and sometimes to our “allies” who we were training.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, MP, FRS, was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. He was a member of the British Conservative Party and played a central role in the creation of the modern Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.
