Assassination Quotes

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

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 […]