Meaning of assassination in English

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« Assassination has never changed the history of the world. »
Benjamin Disraeli
« 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. »
Charles Krauthammer
« Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. »
Angela Davis
« The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. »
Voltaire
« People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. »
John Bolton