"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered……" — Voltaire

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• A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially… — Russell Baker
• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its… — J. G. Ballard
• The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on… — Ben Affleck
• People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale,… — John Bolton
• We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of… — David Ben-Gurion
• We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns… — Barack Obama
• As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed… — Coretta Scott King
• Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns… — Unknown Author
• President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to… — Unknown Author
• It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination. — Peter O'Toole
• I've been forced to deal with my character assassination. — Sean Young
• If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in… — Ann Coulter

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