Assassination Quotes

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

Don’t any of you realize that there is only one life between this madman and the Presidency.

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!

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

To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.

ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is not a war of civilisation, as these assassins don't have any. This is a war against the jihadist menace that threatens not just France.

I have only 2 regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

My only two regrets in public life is that I did not hang John C. Calhoun and shoot Henry Clay.

The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.

All critics should be assassinated.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

I am guilty of killing Sadat and I admit that. I am proud of it because the cause of religion was at stake.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

Our enemies should take note. Arial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination from within, the murder of leading men, overwhelming attacks on all weak points in the enemies defense, sudden attacks, all in the same second without regard for reserves or losses.

If you call Escobar to trial, you can be sure that all the members of your family tree—ancestors and offspring—will be eliminated. We are capable of executing you anywhere on this planet. There is no place you can hide.

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

We’ll bring bin Laden’s head on a platter with flies on his eyeballs.

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.

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

I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, "You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me." It makes me weepy ... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.

A people who are revolted by an execution, but not shocked at an assassination--require that the public authorities should be armed with much sterner powers of repression than elsewhere, since the first indispensable requisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on.

For a secret assassination, the contrived accident is the most effective technique.