Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for… — Victoria Lamb Copy Share Image
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“You know that when the local utility company is trying to assassinate you, that your research into their frauds and corruption is… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is… Not cooperation but… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
“We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-" "He isn't mine. My man has eyes that… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not… — Lindy Boggs Copy Share Image
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
“subscribing to a JFK assassination conspiracy theory amounts to a conviction that, in a moment of extreme crisis, the American political system… — Jefferson Morley Copy Share Image
Everyone knows drones are being deployed outside the US for assassinations. Let's say you even believe in drones. Shouldn't we have a… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better,… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“Usually an upbeat affair, the BCA conference in 2006 proved disturbing. Harvard professor Niall Ferguson asked a strange question: Why hadn’t the… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions…What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such… — United Press International Copy Share Image
We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination.… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“The act of assassination - the targeting of visible individuals, is the result of mental inclinations honed for the pre-literate societies in… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of… — Malaak Shabazz Copy Share Image
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun… — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain.… — Malcolm Kilduff Copy Share Image
Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
“Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the… — J. Bowyer Bell Copy Share Image
Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“We live in the era of the scientific savage,” he reflected, “where all the wisdom of science, mathematics and physics are used… — Daniel Immerwahr Copy Share Image