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There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at read more
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
 Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and 
you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, read more 
 Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and 
you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. 
 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
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 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
  The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
   Making the green one red. 
 One murder made a villain,
 Millions a hero.--Princes were privileg'd
  To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
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 One murder made a villain,
 Millions a hero.--Princes were privileg'd
  To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
   Ah! why will kings forget that they are men,
    And men that they are brethren? 
 Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
 But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.  
 Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
 But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.