The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Quotes about assassinations (16 Quotes)
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.
They want to conduct this trial under their own national authorities, and I think the people who have undertaken these terrorist assassinations obviously are trying to undercut the Iraqi judicial institutions,
We are really concerned. We hope that competition (to succeed him) will not be at our expense, meaning more settlements, more walls, more incursions, more assassinations, more occupation, more dictates.
There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
I couldn't believe that we would actually commit 8 million to create a Web site that would encourage investors to bet on futures involving terrorist attacks and public assassinations, ... ... I can't believe that anybody would seriously propose that we trade in death ... How long would it be before you saw traders investing in a way that would bring about the desired result
But added to those accomplishments, of course, there is the assassination, and Americans have a fascination with assassinations and their legacy.
There's no room for the renewal of the truce in the face of the enemy's policy of increased assassinations and arrests.
The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.
We held 36 days of evidentiary hearings on national television and made recommendations to the House for legislative action in the two assassinations.
It was a difficult decision because we are living in a democratic atmosphere. This is the highest punishment taken against people who have conducted assassinations, and it aims at deterring criminals from going too far in their crimes.
A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements they long fondly for a good murder they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.
People are just fascinated by assassinations.
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.