One of the noblest sentences ever uttered was uttered by Mr. Garfield before he became President. He was a member of Congress, as I remember it, at the time of Lincoln’s assassination. He was at the old Fifth Avenue Hotel and they begged him to go out and say something to the people. He went […]
Assassination Quotes
I helped his presidency. After I shot him his polls went up 20 percent. (on Ronald Reagan)
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, […]
Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood. (Julius Caesar)
If you decide to try and change the world for the better, be careful, a good portion of people who have tried either get nailed to a tree or shot in the head.
As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition. (Julius Caesar)
Torby MacDonald: How would you choose to die? Kennedy: (pausing) Oh, a gun. You never know what’s hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all – here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We’d jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach […]
