assassination quotes

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Speech, House of Commons,1 May, paying tribute to US President  Abraham Lincoln who had been assassinated in Washington,14  Apr.

An intelligent Russian once remarked to me,'Every country has its own Constitution.Ours is absolutism moderated byassassination.'

- Count Georg Mu«  nster
Political Sketches of the State of Europe1814^1867