“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“But Hitler is not tranquil. His right eardrum was ruptured in the bomb blast during the assassination attempt and has only recently… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president.… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Wait, you are not even surprised that your own uncle, framed you, for an assassination?” “No, I’m surprisingly not surprised.".” — Rea Lidde Copy Share Image
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
“It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Rumors are hard to prove, but they’re even harder to disprove. We both know that character assassination is easy. All it takes… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her.… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed…this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
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![“Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.” quote by Raoul Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c6/raoul-peck-8162_assassination_over-the-years-he-disappeared-like-a-lot_360418.jpg)
![“Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that…” quote by Brad Pitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/brad-pitt-1608_assassination_jesse-james-was-known-as-a-kind-of-robin_2421225.jpg)
![“I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.” quote by Andrew Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2a/andrew-johnson-15306_announcements_i-have-been-almost-overwhelmed-by-the-an_3213959.jpg)
