Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband’s blood. Somehow that was the one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.
Assassination Quotes
These men should be equipped with weapons (knives, razors, chains, clubs, bludgeons) and should march slightly behind the innocent and gullible participants. (Guerilla warfare primer, ca. 1954)
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (handwritten statement found after her death Oct 31 1984)
I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me. (El Salvador Archbishop, murdered while celebrating Holy Communion)
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 […]
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)
