assassination
Noun
Meaning
The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.