Assassin

The Russian constitution is “… absolutism tempered by assassination.”

— Ernst Friedrich Herbert von Munster

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

— George Bernard Shaw, The Rejected Statement

If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

If were done quickly; if the assassination

Could trammel up the consequence, and catch

With his surcease success; that but this blow

Might be the be-all and the end-all here,

But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,

We’d jump the life to come.

— Shakespeare, Macbeth