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Letter "A" » assassins
«Assassins!»
«From every latent foe, From the assassins blow, God save the King (Queen)! O'er her thine arm extend, For Britain's sake defend, Our mother, prince, and friend, God save the King (Queen)! God save our gracious king! - Long live our noble king! - God»
Author: Henry Carey
| Keywords:
assassins, Britain, extend, God Save the King, God Save the Queen, queen mother, The Assassins
«Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Action,
Words
| Keywords:
assassins, idealism, The Assassin, The Assassins
«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.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Violence
| Keywords:
assassins, plotting, the Action, The Assassin, The Assassins, violent death
«ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appliance, appliances, assassins, electrical, electrical device, in place, obsolescent, preachment, preachments, rapidly, supersede, superseded, supersedes
«ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolute monarchy, assassins, by chance, curtail, left most, monarchies, monarchy, pleases, replaced, The Assassins
«Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Punishment
| Keywords:
assassins, entertain, expediency, misgiving, misgivings, penalty, regarding, The Assassins
«CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. _Capital Punishment_, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons --including all the assassins --entertain grave misgivings.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anarchist, anarchists, assassins, dinner table, disgrace, entertain, expediency, fork, knife, misgiving, misgivings, misgovernment, penalty, regarding, repast, supplies, The Assassin, The Assassins
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assassins, blade, celebrate, deadly, flight, hilt, hinted, hinting, hints, inutile, irresistible, Joel, keen, mail, nurse, overthrow, rumor, serviceable, shield, slay, slender, spare, The Assassin, The Assassins, the Terror, unseen, valor, wield, wielded, wields, wretch, wretches
«The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
assassins, intimidated, intimidates, Iraqi, Iraqis, killers, The Assassin, The Assassins, The Killers, The United States of America, thug, thugs, United States of America
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